Notes for John EVANS, II

BIVIN Family Genealogy

Notes for John EVANS, II

At one time member of the Mo Legislature.
Graduated Medical College, Cincinniti. Taught in Bush Med. College,
Chicago.
Established Northwestern University in Evanston [named for him 1862-65
Governer Terr. Colorado (?)
Established Univ. of Denver and built Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
there.
Member of Missouri Legislature
Last years spent in Pueblo, CO
Mt. Evans named in his honor
John Evans

Kelsey, Harry Edwards. Frontier Capitalist: The Life of John Evans.
Denver: State Historical Society of Colorado, 1969.

Kennedy, Ethne M. "Denver's Forgotten Pioneer," Railroad Magazine, Vol.
46, No. 4 (September 1948), 18-49.

MacMechen, Edgar Carlisle. Life of Governor Evans, Second Territorial
Governor of Colorado. Denver: Wahlgreen
Pub. Co., 1924.

Reply of Governor Evans to the report of the "Committee on the Conduct of
the War," Headed "Massacre of the Cheyenne
Indians." Denver, 1865. Graff Collection.

Rhode, Robert B. Governor John Evans: Builder of Two Universities.
Denver: University of Denver, 1952.

Scott, Walter Dill. John Evans, 1814-1897: An Appreciation. Evanston,
Il.: L.J. Norris, 1939.