The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . o.,which he conducted successfully until the outbreakof the civil war, when he was doing the largest job-bing business in Nashville. At the close of the warhe organized the jobbing
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . o.,which he conducted successfully until the outbreakof the civil war, when he was doing the largest job-bing business in Nashville. At the close of the warhe organized the jobbing dry-goods house of Evans,Gardiner & Co., in New York city, doing businesschiefly with the southern merchants for about sevenyears. Mr. Evans was subsequently connected withseveral dry-gopds houses, part of the time as specialpartner, for about ten years, and is a member of theNew York Chamber of Commerce. He was directorin the Louisville and Nashville, Chattanooga an(i , .Evansville and Terre Haute, and Mobile andOhio railroads, to which he devoted a large part ofhis time. Mr. Evans attributes his success in life tohaving early engaged in , which he followedfor about forty years, to his close application, indus-try, and the strictest integiity, meeting all his engage-ments promptly, and without asking those he owedfor extension or compromise, notwithstanding variousfinancial troubles. -. j^::?^^^^.^^.. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 241 G-AZZAM, Joseph Murphy, lawyer and statesenator, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 2, 1842,son of Edwin D. and Elizabeth Antoinette grandfather, William Gazzam, an in 1792 through the resentment of theking was compelled^ to seek refuge in the UnitedSlates, whose rights he had open-ly defended. Settling first inPhiladelphia, later in Carlisle,and finally in Pittsburg, heserved as collector of the portunder President Madison, anddied there in 1811. His father,Edward D. Gazzam, fourth sonof William Gazzam, wa
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