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

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Greeting To him who hss known or ever shall know the great rnd lasting place to which our University, our Alma Mater is entitled by reason of her great and ever in- creasing usefulness; to him who recognizes true worth of work accomplished and of ends subserved by institu- tions such as ours; to him, who, treading through her college halls in years now gone, has learned to love her best of all. and last to him who yet shall know the joy, the pleasures of her better days, do we, the Class of Nineteen Hundred Eleven present this volume, a record of a year, like to a page torn from a tome scarce begun, and in annals, Athena Volume VI. Seier,