Men of 1914 Biographical Sketches

Estopinal, Albert, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1845, in St. Bernard Parish; and in 1876-80 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; and in 1880-1900 was state senator. In 1899 he was a member of Louisiana Constitutional Convention. In 1900-04 he was lieutenant-governor of Louisiana. In 1862-65 he served in the Civil War. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Louisiana to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses as a Democrat; was re-elected to the Sixty-third Congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in St. Bernard, La.

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Ethier, Joseph Arthur Calixte, Advocate and King's Counsel; born, May 26, 1868, at St. Benoit, Two Mountains, Quebec ; son of J. B. Ethier, and his wife, Julie Boyer; educated at Montreal College ; married a daughter of Dr. L. A. Fortier. Deputy Prothonotary of District of Terrebonne, 1888-95; Crown Prosecutor of District of Terrebonne ; Mayor of the Village of St. Scholastique, second term ; Secretary-Treasurer of Schools, rural municipalities of St. Scholastique and St. Colombin; Secretary of La Compagnie d'Assurance Mutuelle de la paroisse de St. Schobastique; Director of the Central Railway Co. of Canada. First elected at general election, June 23, 1896, by a majority of 17; re-elected at general election, 1900, by 131; re-elected at bye-election, Feb., 1903, by a majority of 124; re-elected at general election, 1904, by a majority of 129; re-elected at general election, 1908, by a majority of 89; re-elected by acclamation at general election, Nov., 1911. Elected Chairman of Commission on Miscellaneous Private Bills at Session of 1907. Address: St. Scholastique, Que., Canada.

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Etter, Scott, lawyer and statesman of Carlsbad, N.M., was born Oct. 30, 1875, in Palmyra, Ill. For ten years he practiced law in Palmyra, Ill., and also served as city attorney. He has been a member of the National Board of Water Users' Associations. He is chairman of the New Mexico State Board of Water Commissioners; and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Federation of Water Users' Associations. He is now mayor of his city.

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Evans, John M., United States congressman at large from Montana, was born Jan. 7, 1863, in Sedalia, Mo. He has been police judge and mayor of his city. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Missoula, Mont.

Evans, Lawton Bryan, educator, lecturer and author of 639 Telfair St., Augusta, Ga., was born Oct. 27, 1862, in Lumpkin, Ga. Since 1882 he has been superintendent of the public schools of Augusta. He is the author of American Histories ; History of Georgia; English Language and Grammar and other works.

Evans, Niels Christian, physician, surgeon, banker; born Perry, Wis., July 10, 1857; son of Christian and Rachael (Nelson) Evans; received a common, select and academic education; graduated College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, M.D.; married, Perry, Wis., Sept. 9, 1879, Lena C. Lewis; children : C. Crall, Nora L., Belle R. and Walter C. Started the practice of medicine at Mount Horeb, Wis., 1884, and has been engaged in this profession ever since. Embarked in drug business, 1887, continuing until 1909, when gave business to son. In 1895 bought one-third interest in the firm of Heisig, Grinde & Co., firm name changed to Heisig, Grinde & Evans; continued until 1909 when business became incorporated. Mr. Grinde retired and sold his interests to a third party; Mr. Heisig has now sold out to Roy Beat, who still retains a third interest in the firm, which is now known as Mount Horeb Hardware Co. In 1905 started a small hospital with ten beds and is chief surgeon; engaged in farming forty-three acres of land. President State Bank of Mount Horeb and Mount- Horeb Independent Telephone Co. Served as chairman of town of Blue Mounds, Wis.; president of village of Mount Horeb, Wis.; member of Assembly of Wisconsin, 1893-1894; United States pension surgeon; was candidate for state senator. Republican ; Lutheran. Member American Medical Association, Wisconsin State Medical Association and Dane County Medical Society. Mason, Knight Templar, Woodman of America. Recreation : Automobiling. Address: Mount Horeb.

Evans, Samuel G., librarian, of 330 Main St., Evansville, Ind., was born March 19, 1839, in Jackson County, W.Va. Graduate of Washington College (Pa.). He is in the retail dry goods business. Member American Association for Advance of Science; Indiana State Academy of Sciences; and president of the Willard Library.

Evans, Dr. William Augustus, Marion, Ala., Aug. 5, 1865, B.S. Miss. Agr. and Mch. College, '83, M.S. '85, M.D. Tulane '85, LL.D. Tulane, '09, M.D. ad eundeu Ill. '99, D.P.H. Michigan '11. Demonstrator and later professor pathology Illinois, 1891 to 1908. Professor preventor New Northwestern 1908; Commissioner of Health, Chicago, 1907-1911; Health Editor, Chicago Tribune, 1911; American Medical, Illinois Med., Chicago Med., American Public Health.

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Evarts, Allen W., lawyer; born in New York City, Dec. 10, 1848; son of William M. Evarts and Helen Minerva (Wardner) Evarts. He was graduated from Yale University as B.A. in 1869 and M.A. in 1872 and studied law at the Columbia Law School from 1870 to 1871. He is a member of the firm of Evarts, Choate and Sherman. Mr. Evarts is president of the Garden City Company, secretary of the United Metals Selling Company, a member of the New York City Bar Association, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the American Museum of Natural History; New York Historical Society; New York Zoological Society; the New England Society; and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Mr. Evarts is a trustee of Vassar College. He is also a member of the Century Association and the Union, University, Yale, New York Athletic, Manhattan, Grolier, Brook, Whist, Turf and Field, and Garden City Golf Clubs and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C., and the St. Stephen's Club of London. Address: 60 Wall St., New York City.

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Everett, Henry A., capitalist; born in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 16, 1856; son of Dr. Azariah Everett and Emily (Burnham) Everett. He procured his education in public and private schools in Cleveland, O., and afterward engaged in business pursuits. From the pioneer days of electric traction he has been prominent as a promoter, constructor and operator of electric railways, and also in the organizing, financing and operation of independent telephone companies. He is interested in various railway, telephone and electric lighting corporations in various cities of the United States and Canada; president of the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company, and the London Street Rail-way Company, of London, Ontario. Mr. Everett is a member of the Union Club. He married in Cleveland, in 1886, Josephine Pettengill; children: Leolyn Louise and Dorothy Burnham Everett. Residence: Willoughby, Ohio. Office address : Hippodrome Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio.

Everett, Wallace Washburn, publisher; born, Akron, 0., Mar. 21, 1875; son, Sebastian L. and Eliza O. Everett; descendant of Everett family of New England. Ph.B., Univ. of Cal., Berkeley, 1897. Married, Jane F. Crellin, Sept. 11, 1912, at Oakland, Cal. Publisher, "Pioneer Western Lumberman" and "Pacific Coast Golf & Outdoor Sports." Clubs: Bohemian, (S.F.) ; Claremont Country and Sequoyah Country, (Oakland) ; Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity; Cal. Lodge No. 1, Cal. Chapter No. 5, and Cal. Commandery, K.T., F. & A. M. Res.: 1836 Alice St., Oakland, Cal. Office : 311 California St., San Francisco, Cal.

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Every, W. F., general claim agent Northern Pacific Ry. Office: St. Paul, Minn. Born April 11, 1872, at Leroy, Minn. Graduated from high school at Leroy, Minn., 1888, and attended the Cedar Valley Seminary at Osage, Ia., from 1888 to 1892. Entered rail-way service Jan. 1, 1895, as stenographer general claim department Northern Pacific By., held various positions in the department to July, 1897, when he became chief clerk. In 1909, he was appointed general claim agent same road, which position he now holds.

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Ewart, Hamilton Glover, jurist; born in Columbia, S.C., Oct. 23, 1849; son of James B. and Mary Ann Ewart. He was educated in the schools of Columbia and afterward took the law course at the University of South Carolina, from which he was graduated LL.B., 1876. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, located at Hendersonville, N.C., and engaged in the practice of law. He became active in political affairs as a Republican, was an elector on the Hayes and Wheeler ticket in 1876, and was elected to the North Carolina Legislature in 1884 and-1887. In 1888 he was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and served until 1891. He was elected judge of the Western Criminal District of North Carolina in 1895, and served until he was appointed in 1898 by President McKinley to the office as judge of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina. He married at Hendersonville, 1879, Sarah C. Ripley. Address: Hendersonville, N.C.

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Ewell, M. Watson, business man, mayor of Dyersburg, Tenn., born Madison Co., Tenn., Dec. 6, 1867; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Wm. B. and Mary M. (Brown) Ewell; paternal grandparents Joshua and Mary Bryan (Blount) Ewell; maternal grandparents Anthony and Nancy (Carlyle) Brown; educated at public schools of Madison Co.; married Jimmie E. Moss, March 2, 1895; member of Knights of Maccabees ; Democrat ; serving second term as Mayor of Dyersburg, began business career as bookkeeper; later entered wholesale grain business; interested in real estate in Dyersburg, and farm and timber lands in Dyer Co.; stockholder and director in banks and other local enterprises; member Christian Church.

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Ewing, Edwin C., lawyer; born, Central City, Nebraska, Dec. 25, 1876; son, Albert and Antoinette (Howe) E. Educated: Univ. of Nebr., 1893-4-5; LL.B., Univ. of Wash., College of Law, 1905. Unmarried. County Judge, Merrick Co., Nebr., 1900-02. Clubs : Seattle Athletic, Firlock, Arctic, College. Member : Seattle Municipal League. Res.: College Club. Office: 813-14-15 Alaska Bldg., Seattle, Wash.

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Eycleshymer, Albert Chauncey, professor of anatomy; born at Cambridge, N.Y., June 16, 1867; son of David C. Eycleshymer and Anna M. (Perry) Eycleshymer. He received the degree of B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1891; was elected university fellow at Princeton in 1891; was a fellow at Clark from 1891 to 1892 ; a fellow at Chicago from 1892 to 1893 ; received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1894; studied at Cambridge, England, and in Germany from 1895 to 1896; was Austin fellow at the Harvard Medical School from 1900 to 1901. Was assistant in animal morphology, University of Michigan, in 1889; in botany, in 1890; chief assistant, Allis Lake Lab-oratory, from 1890 to 1891; assistant in biology, University of Chicago, from 1893 to 1895; associate, anatomy, from 1895 to 1897; instructor from 1897 to 1902; assistant professor from 1902 to 1903; director department of anatomy St. Louis University, from 1903 to 1913 ; acting dean St. Louis University Medical College, 1913. Was lecturer on human embryology, Rush Medical College, from 1897 to 1898; assistant professor from 1898 to 1899. Professor and head of the department of anatomy University of Illinois, 1913-. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science of the American Society of Naturalists, of the American Association of Anatomists. His chief researches have been on vertebrate embryology. He received the grand prize at St. Louis Exposition for embryological researches. He married at Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 23, 1895, Mary Elizabeth Donovan; they have three children: Ethel M., aged fifteen; Albert D., aged eleven, and Lois C., aged six. Address: St. Louis University, Medical Department, St. Louis,. Missouri. 

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Eyman, Frank P., assistant freight manager Chicago & Northwestern Railway, was born Oct. 5, 1856.  Educated at Oberlin College, 1870 to 1872.  Entered railway service 1873 as agent and operator Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, since which he has been consecutively to 1879 cashier and agent Denver and Rio Grande Railway at Antonio, Colo.; 1880 to 1882, telegraph operator and agent Chicago and Northwestern Railway; 1882 to 1887, traveling freight agent; 1887 to 1896, contracting freight agent and local agent at Milwaukee, Wis.; 1896 to Feb. 1, 1900, general agent at Chicago, Ill., and Feb. 1, 1900, to Aug. 1, 1909, assistant general freight agent same road; Aug. 1, 1909, appointed assistant freight traffic manager, present position. Member of Union League, Traffic, Evanston and Glenview Golf Clubs.
  

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Source:  Men of 1914, Chicago, Ill, 1915