Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . I D. D. from one of the universities, and was ap-pointed missionary at Oxford and Radnor, in addi-dition to Christ church. Having been presentedto St. Georges parish, Harford co., by the governorof Maryland, he resigned his former charge on 15Feb., 1718. While on a visit shortly afterward, hewas seized with an apoplectic fit in the pulpit ofChrist church on Sunday, and died on the fol-lowing Wednesday. During his ministry he bap-tized 800 persons, about 500 of whom had be-longed to the society of Friends, whose membersflocked to hear him in great n
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . I D. D. from one of the universities, and was ap-pointed missionary at Oxford and Radnor, in addi-dition to Christ church. Having been presentedto St. Georges parish, Harford co., by the governorof Maryland, he resigned his former charge on 15Feb., 1718. While on a visit shortly afterward, hewas seized with an apoplectic fit in the pulpit ofChrist church on Sunday, and died on the fol-lowing Wednesday. During his ministry he bap-tized 800 persons, about 500 of whom had be-longed to the society of Friends, whose membersflocked to hear him in great numbers. EVANS, Evan William, scholar, b. near Swan-sea, Wales, in 1827; d. in Ithaca, N. Y., 22 May, came to this country with his parents when achild, and was graduated at Yale in 1851. Afterstudying theology in New Haven for a year he be-came principal of Delaware institute, Y., and in 1855-7 was a tutor in Yale, accept-ing in the latter year the chair of natural philoso-phy and astronomy in Marietta college, Ohio,where
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