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Evans, John



1814-97, American founder of educational institutions, b. Waynesville, Ohio, grad. Lynn Medical College, Cincinnati, 1838. He practiced medicine in Indiana and was the first superintendent (1845) of the state hospital for the insane, which he had helped establish. In 1848 he went to Chicago as professor of obstetrics at Rush Medical School. He invested in real estate and helped found Northwestern Univ. in Evanston, Ill., a city named for him. Evans served (1862-65) as governor of Colorado Territory and later worked for the promotion of what is now the Univ. of Denver.

Bibliography: See biography by H. E. Kelsey, Jr. (1969).


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