History of Marshall County Illinois United States of America

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Jervice Gaylord Evans, educator, was born in Marshall county, Ill., Dec. 19, 1833; son of Joshua and Elisabeth (Radcliff) Evans, and grandson of Thomas Evans, who came from Wales. His mother's parents were natives of Germany. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan university, and in 1854 became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. He was married June 14, 1857, to Nettie G. Gardiner of Powell, Ohio. He preached in various places until 1872 when he became president of Hedding college, Ill., resigning in 1878 to accept the presidency of Chaddock college. Quincy, Ill. In 1879 he returned to the pulpit, and in 1889 again became president of Hedding college. He was for six years secretary of the Central Illinois conference, and for four years presiding elder. He was a delegate to the general conference in 1876, 1884, 1892 and 1896, and in 1884 was a delegate to the centennial conference of American Methodism, held in Baltimore. In the General conference of 1892, held in Omaha, he was chairman of the committee on temperance and prohibition, and from that time was a member of the permanent committee on temperance, by appointment of the General conference. He received the degrees of A.M. from Quincy college in 1870, D.D. from Chaddock college in 1884, and LL.D. from the Chicago college of science in 1889. He is the author of: Genesis and Geology (1875); Tobacco (1877); The Pulpit and Politics (1886); The Woman Question (1887); Christianity and Science vs. Evolution and Infidelity (1895); Parental Obligation (1898); Christian Citizenship (1898), and numerous pamphlets, lectures and sermons.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Mary Fisher, author, was born in Marshall county, Ill., April 12, 1858; daughter of John and Agnes (Ewing) Fisher. Her father was a native of Sheffield, England, and her mother was born near Glasgow, Scotland. Her great-grandfather was a French sea captain. She was graduated in 1876 from the High school, Chillicothe, Ill., where she passed her girlhood, but her education was mainly acquired through her own exertions and she became a wide reader in English, French and German. She taught in the high schools at Lewiston, Ill., Springfield, Mo., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and in 1899 was teacher of French, German and American literature in the Manual training high school, Kansas city, Mo. She is the author of Twenty-five Letters on English Authors (1895); A Group of French Critics (1897); A General Survey of American Literature (1899).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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