Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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David J. Evans D A ID J. E A ' S. our beloved Class Professor, was bom on a farm near Oak Hill, Jack--. hi County, Ohio, August 22, 1846. lie lived on this farm until the- fall of 1864, when he was employed to teach school. I], mi that time until tins, he ha- been a teacher or a student. In March. 1866, he matriculated at the Ohio University and remained four term-, when he was employed to teach in Sciotoville, Scioto County. In 1868 lie returned to the University, where he remained four more terms. In the winter of ' 69-70 he taught school a short distance south of Athens, and in the spring of ' 0 he again resumed his studies in the University, graduating in 181 1. His first work after graduation was that of school superintendent; a year at Xelsonville and a year at West Jefferson. ( hio. In ' i:l he began his career as a college instructor in the I ' . C. College at Meron. Indiana. In lssi ' i he was elected principal of the Putnam Ladies ' Seminary. Zanesville. Ohio. Two years later he was elected Professor of Latin in the t Ihio University, a position which he -till fill- with honor. Professor Evans ' inclination to a student ' s life was prompted by three things: his home where scholars were admired; a Welsh Sunday school where men of splendid character and culture taught the scriptures ; the influence of his teacher-, one of whom was formerly a student in an English University. In 1872 Professor Evans married Miss Lydia Margaret Lash, of Athens. To this happy union three son- and a daughter were born. The eldest son died in hi- twentieth year, a successful chemist in Deadwood, S. Dak. The second graduated in 1901 and is a chemist in Denver, Colo. The youngest son gradu- ated in 1908, from Ohio University and i- now a graduate student and instructor in Physics in Harvard University. The daughter married Mr. Arthur Howe Carpenter, a widely known metallurgist of the West. He is vitally interested in all good movements, civic, educational, humane, and Christian. He i- a refined Christian gentleman of the finest type and a favorite with all. ,Si.r