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(8 Oct 1835 - )
The History of Brown County, Ohio (Morrow, Sec 5, pp 157-8) "William H. Evans, pysician and surgeon, P.O. Hiett. Dr. W. H. and Abraham F. Evans were born Oct. 8, 1835 in Huntington Township and were twin sons of the late Hon. Andrew Evans . . . The boyhood days of each were passed on their father's farm and together they attended the neighborhood school which afforded them the advantages of a common school educationn which was developed by a course of study in a local grammar school, which completed their literary education. They took a part in the performances of the labor on the farm and during the winter season were engaged in a flouring mill then operated by their father. Thus their boyhood passed until they arrived at the age of maturity. At this period they separated, W. H. remaining in the mill, where he continued his labor as before, and A. F. began the study of medicine. . . . The avocation of milling and farming he followed until 1860, at which time he removed to West Point, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., where he followed farming one season. . . . After the death of his wife, he disposed of his effects and with his two motherless babes, returned to his former home. . . . Taking up the study of medicine with Dr. Guthrie, a physician of Aberdeen, he prosecuted his research in the science of medicine until his enlistment August 12, 1862, in Company E, of the Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In the organization of the regiment, he was appointed a duty Sergeant. Soon after, the regiment moved to the front, and he followed the fortunes of the same in all of the marching and countermarching, and was a participant in the numerous engagements of the regiment up to August 14, 1863, at which time he was commissioned Hospital Steward of his regiment. This dates prior a few days to the memorable and sanguine battle of Chickamauga, during which he was engaged in carrying from the field of carnage those of our wounded boys who fell in that frightful holocaust of death. His knowledge of surgery enabled him to be of inestimable value to many whose wounds were of such a character that would admit of no delay in dressing and careful attention. For his heroism and strict attention to the performances of his dangerous and arduous labors upon this field and many other of a like character, he received from many of his superios, valuable testimonials for meritorious conduct and unflinching bravery that carried him into the most dangerous places in the discharge of duty. At Chickamauga, his regiment was fearfully decimated, coming from out the conflict with its banners scarred and tattered by the leaden missiles of death which laid many of its rank and file in a soldier's grave in a field they so nobly fought to win. Many more only escaped the instant death of bullet and saber thrust, but to fall into the hands of merciless and ungenerous foes, and to suffer incarceration in the awful prison pens, whose torture was worse than the inflicted punishments of the old inquisition. Following in the wake of this battle came the hotly contested actions of Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face, Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Sherman's march to the sea, in all of which the regiment was engaged. December 24, 1864, he was detailed Hospital Steward of the Fourteenth Corps and remained in Savannah until the following March, when the war closed. He joined the army at Goldsobor and was discharged near Washington, D. C., June 7, 1865. Upon his return to civil life, he read medicine with John W. Guthrie of Aberdeen until October following, when he went to Cleveland, Ohio, to Charity Hospital Medical College, and attended lectures there under the tutorship of Prof. R. N. Barr, then Surgeon General of Ohio. He received a unanimous vote for the degree of Doctor of Medicine and was graduated February 21, 1866, and honored with a diploma. he returned to this township and began the practice. . . . He moved to Hiett September 30, 1868. He has a house and a lot of six and one-half acres; he joined the Christian Church at Bethlehem, in 1856, and was the first of his family to join the church; he was a licentiate minister of the Ohio Christian Conference for twelve years, when he resigned; he was the Republican nominee for Sheriff in 1870, and was defeated, the county being largely Democratic; he was the Republican nominee of his (Fourth) district for State Senator in 1881, and was defeated by a reduced Democratic majority; he has practiced his profession successfully and was always temperate.
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| Birth | 8 Oct 1835 | Huntington Township, Brown, Ohio, United States | |  | |
| Marriage | 23 Sep 1857 | Amanda Scott | | | |
| Census | 1860 | Jackson Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States |  | | |
| Marriage | 5 Dec 1867 | Maria Power Games | | | |
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