Hugh Davey Evans (1792–1868)
In early 1828 Bushrod Washington wrote Evans to compliment him on his recent book.
Hugh Davey Evans was born on 26 April 1792 in Baltimore, Maryland. An autodidact, he studied law as a young man and gained admittance to the bar in 1815. Evans had an astute legal mind, which led to appointments as a clerk to the Baltimore city council and reviser of city ordinances. In 1827 he published his first legal work, An Essay on Pleading with a View to an Improved System.
"Hugh Davey Evans." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310013920/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=5ba03d53. Accessed 28 August 2022.
Edward N. Todd, "The 'Recollections' of Hugh Davey Evans," Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Volume 34, Number 4 (December 1965), 297–332.
John Marshall to Hugh D. Evans, 27 December 1827, in Charles Hobson, ed., The Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2014).
Baltimore Sun, 18 July 1868, page 1, column 7 (Newspapers.com).
Hugh Davey Evans at Find a Grave.