H.C. EVANS

(From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 653-654)
Transcribed by Kris Breid, 31 May 2005

H. C. EVANS, A. M., professor of Latin and mathematics in the Synodical female College. Among the talented and accomplished young educators of this State, none seem to have a more promising future in their profession than Prof. Evans, the subject of the present sketch. Ambitious of learning, and as capable of taking an advanced education as he was ambitious to acquire it, his course thorough college was characterized by a degree of zeal in his studies and a rapidity of advancement to which there have been few equals. Nor did he cease to be a student at the conclusion of his college course. On the contrary, holding the view expressed by Prof. Earle of the University of Oxford, England, that on the receipt of one’s diploma he is then just prepared to enter the field of real learning, he has continued his habits of study with unabated energy.

But it is not simply to be a man of learning or for his own gratification alone that he has thus devoted himself so thoroughly to the pursuit of knowledge. Generous in all his impulses, and desirous to so occupy his life that it will be of the greatest possible value to his fellow men, he recognizes in the cause of education the highest and best hope of the world, and it is to fit himself the better to aid in the advancement of this great cause, that he is striving with so much earnestness and resolution in the acquisition of knowledge. Animated by this purpose and encouraged by the progress he has already made, both as a student and educator, it is not too much to expect that, if life and health are spared him, he will rise to a position of great eminence in his profession. As an educator he posseses [sis] to a marked degree one of the most important qualifications for success—the ability to explain, with brevity and clearness and with pleasure to his hearers, the facts he wishes them to understand. This, united with his general information and his thoroughness in the branches which he teaches, makes him one of the most successful instructors in the State.

He was born near Mount Carmel in Fleming county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1853, and is a son of Milton M. and Naomi (Maple) Evans: his father a native of Ohio, but his mother of Kentucky. In 1867 the family, including the son, H. C., removed to Missouri and made their home in Scotland county. H. C. Evans early discovered a taste for study, and his inclination in this direction was heartily encouraged by his parents. He made rapid progress in the local and primary schools. Entering Westminster College, he prosecuted his studies there with untiring industry, and finally graduated from that institution in 1881 with high honors. On the 8th of August, 1883, Prof. Evans was married to Miss Elida Scott of this county, a young lady of rare graces of mind and person, and of a most amiable disposition. She is a graduate from the college with which Prof. Evans is now connected. She is a daughter of Dr. Scott of this city. Personally Prof. Evans and his charming young wife, whose address and conversation intensify the happy impression her personal appearance makes upon all that meet her, are held in the highest esteem by the best society of Fulton, and wherever they are known.

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