CLASS OF 1872

William Webster Evans died suddenly of heart disease at his home in the city of Chicago, March 17. He was born in Kenosha, Wis., November 16, 1849, the son of Enoch Webster and Caroline (Hyde) Evans. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1838, removed to Chicago in 1859, and at his death in 1879 was one of the leading lawyers in Illinois. In college Mr. Evans became a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. Immediately after graduation he began the study of law in his father's office, and after his admission to the bar, in September, 1874, was received by the latter into partnership. He has been latterly of the law firm of Willard and Evans, and has been highly successful and widely known. He was a charter member of the Illinois Club of Chicago, and an expert fisherman and hunter. In 1880 he was married to Julia Hyde of Joliet, Ill., who survives him, with four daughters.

Secretary, Prof. Albert E. Frost, Winthrop St., Pittsburgh, Pa.