Dr. George Edwin Evans, who for twenty years has engaged in the practice of medicine in Branford as a representative of the homeopathic school, was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, September 4, 1868, a son of Edward E. and Mary Abby (Vickery) Evans. The father is also a native of Rochester, New Hampshire, and has made farming his life work, still remaining at the place of his nativity. His wife died when their son, George E., was but four years of age.
     Upon the home farm Dr. George E. Evans was reared with the usual experiences of the farmbred boy. He supplemented his district school education by study in the Rochester high school with the class of '90, and in the Brewster Free Academy; then, having determined upon a professional career as a life work, he entered the New York Homeopathic Medical College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1896. His early professional experience came to him as interne in Grace Hospital at New Haven and on the 9th of April, 1897, he opened his office in Branford, where he has now remained in practice through two decades. He is thoroughly alert, enterprising and progressive. In order to attain a higher degree of proficiency in his profession he has taken considerable post-graduate work in the Post Graduate Hospital of New York city. He is a keen and discriminating student of new medical and surgical methods and is a very successful physician, readily and accurately applying his broad scientific knowledge to the specific needs of individual cases, his success resting upon his sound judgment in these matters. He belongs to the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Association and was honored with its presidency in 1915-16. He is also a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
     In September, 1898, Dr. Evans was married to Miss Melvena Estelle Coolidge, of East River, New Haven county, who was there born, a daughter of Horace P. and Mary (Tuthill) Coolidge, who were natives of the state of New York but became residents of East River in early life. Dr. and Mrs. Evans have two children, Marion Frances and Edward Coolidge. In his political views Dr. Evans has always been a stalwart republican, never faltering in his allegiance to the party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to Widows Son Lodge, No. 66, F. & A. M., or Branford; to Pulaski Chapter, R. A. M.; and to Crawford Council, R. & S. M., of Fairhaven. Actuated in all that he does by a spirit of enterprise, he has made continuous progress in his profession until he occupies an enviable position among the most able and successful homeopathic practitioners in his sec-tion of the state.