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DR. RAYMOND M. EVARTS, a skillful physician of the younger school, and a graduate of Howard University, of Washington, D. C., is a son of Charles H. and Lucy (Kellogg) Evarts and was born August 27th, 1859, at Leon, Cattaraugus county, New York. The Evarts family have risen to prominence, a citable example being the Hon. William M. Evarts, Ex-United States Senator from the Empire State. For some generations they were homogeneous to New England, the paternal great-grandfather, Rinaldo Evarts, being a native of Connecticut. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and after coming to New York State was for a number of years presiding elder of the Erie Conference. Rinaldo Evarts married Eliza Morley, a descendant of one of the most distinguished New England families. They had six children, three sons and three daughters. The maternal grandfather, Captain Galord Kellogg, was born in the eastern part of New York; he followed farming and earned his military title by several years service in the New York State militia. Early in life he emigrated to Cattaraugus county, where he established for himself a name and reputation second to none. Politically he was a whig and republican and he married Rosanna Warner, who bore him three sons and two daughters. Charles H. Evarts was born in eastern New York about 1823. He has always been identified with agricultural work and now lives in Chautauqua county. Politically he is a republican but is not desirous of political distinction, although he takes an active interest in the affairs of his party. He married Lucy Kellogg, who is yet living, aged fifty-eight years, and they have had six children, four sons and two daughters: Julia is dead; Raymond M.; George, who lives at Irving, New York, and is engaged as a traveling salesman for a Saratoga wholesale drug house; Estella is dead; Grant lives at Collins, Erie county, New York; and Charles, who is dead.

Dr. Raymond M. Evarts married Annie Tully, a native of Cortland county, this State, on the 6th day of February, 1884, and they have three children: Ruby T., Lucy and Cora Ruth.

Raymond M. Evarts was educated at the common and more advanced schools of the localities in which he lived, and when twenty years of age he entered the office of Dr. A. A. Hubbell, then located at Leon, New York, but now professor of diseases of the eye and ear at Niagara University, Buffalo. After the usual term of reading, our subject matriculated at the Buffalo College of Physicians and Surgeons and took one course of lectures. He then went to Howard University, Washington, D. C., where he took his graduating course in the medical department of that institution, and received his diploma March 7th, 1882. He first located for practice at Pine Valley, Cattaraugus county, where he remained one year and three months, and July 23d, 1883, came to Irving, Chautauqua county, where he has ever since resided. Dr. Evarts is a member of both the Chautauqua County Medical society and the Lake Erie Medical society, and in politics is a republican, besides being a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. He is an interested student of archeology and has in his possession an extensive and valuable collection of historical relics, both of the stone or Indian age and the early French explorations.

Dr. Evarts is a skillful physician, is thoroughly familiar with his profession, because he loves it, and upon the appearance of every new and valuable treatment of practical value, he acquaints himself with it at once.