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Thomas Wiltberger Evans was the son of William Milnor and Catherine Anne (Wiltberger) Evans and a descendant of a family of Welsh Quakers who had emigrated to Philadelphia in 1682.
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Thomas Wiltberger Evans was the son of William Milnor and Catherine Anne (Wiltberger) Evans and a descendant of a family of Welsh Quakers who had emigrated to Philadelphia in 1682.
He received a common-school education and at the age of fourteen he became apprenticed to Joseph Warner, a silversmith of Philadelphia whose business included the manufacture of dental implements.
Through this association he acquired an interest in dentistry and, in 1841, became a student of Dr. John De Haven White [q. v. ] of Philadelphia.
During the two years he remained with White he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College.
It was during this period that Evans made a series of gold contour filling operations which, exhibited at the Franklin Institute in 1847, brought him his first public recognition.
A high degree of professional skill, an attractive personality, and a tactful wife enabled him not only to become the dentist to all the important Royal families of Europe, but also, to many of them, a personal friend.
He practised a short time in Baltimore, Maryland, and then joined Dr. Philip Van Patten in his dental practise in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A friendship with Napoleon III, begun during professional services and assiduously cultivated, laid the foundations of a large private fortune and the most distinguished dental practise of the nineteenth century.
As his success grew, Evans’s conceit, ever present, became boundless.
He came to consider himself not only a successful dentist, but an author and a diplomat.
This mission, performed during the fall of 1864 and related at length in his Memoirs, came at a time when Napoleon was considering the recognition of the Confederacy and, according to Evans, had begun negotiations to that end with the English government.
The report of Evans, predicting victory for the North, decided Napoleon against recognition.
However, the only evidence for this mission and its remarkable results is that supplied by Evans, who was ever generous in crediting his own exploits.
Of greater authenticity are the important services he rendered the Empress Eugénie in escaping from Paris during the riots that followed the disaster at Sedan at the close of the Franco-Prussian War and in establishing her in the English exile.
Through his friendship with Napoleon he learned in advance of the improvements in Paris projected by Baron Haussmann ; the resulting sagacious investments in real estate formed the basis of his fortune.
During the Crimean and the Franco-Prussian wars he spent large sums providing ambulance corps and other measures of relief for the wounded.
During the American Civil War he organized the United States Sanitary Commission at Philadelphia.
These services have been fully recorded in three volumes by Evans: La Commission Sanitaire des États-Unis (Paris, 1865), Les Institutions Sanitaires pendant le Conflit Austro-Prussien-Italien (Paris, 1867), and History of the American Ambulance established in Paris during the Siege of 1870-71 (London, 1873).
His single, and unsuccessful, literary effort was a lengthy introduction to the Memoirs of Heinrich Heine, published in London in 1884.
He was an infrequent contributor to dental journals, but his few publications demonstrate a fertility of resource and originality of thought.
His role in the history of American dentistry is considerable.
He soon after accepted an invitation to associate himself with Dr. C. Starr Brewster, an American dentist with a large and successful clientele in Paris; he remained with Brewster until 1850, when he opened his own office at 15 rue de la Paix.
It was appropriate that the bulk of his fortune was used in establishing the Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute, now the Dental School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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During the American Civil War he organized the United States Sanitary Commission at Philadelphia.
If Evans was naive, ambitious, and vain, as his Memoirs and contemporary testimony both reveal him, he was also generous and charitable.
Before leaving Philadelphia in 1843 he married Agnes Josephine Doyle.