The Indianapolis journal., 1903-05-13
DR.. EVAN HADLEY DEAD
HE HAD PRACTICED IN THIS CITY
FOR THIRTY YEARS.
An Authority on the Diseases of Chill
dren-Tributes Paid by Life
long Friends.

one of the most prominent physicians of
the community, died yesterday noon at his
home in Mooresville, IEd.. of organic
heart trouble which had incapacitated him
from active work for a, year past and
which caused his removal from Indianapo-
lis to Mooresville eighteen months ago. DR..
Hadley's death was sudden but not unex-
pected. He had been steadily declining for
several days past and his end came peace
fully. He is survived by a widow, whom
he married in 1871, and four grown sons,
who are we'll started in their careers in
life. One of his sons, Chalmers Hadley, is
on the staff of the Philadelphia Press;
another, Paul, has taken honors in Phil
adelphia art school, which indicates his
ability, and Harvey. of this city. recently
graduated from the Medical College of
Indiana, and was assigned TO an expert
mental course in surgery in st. Vincent's
Hospital. Evan Hadley, the fourth son,
is now living with his mother at the home
in Mooresville.
Over a year ago Or. Hadley gave up his
large practice in Indianapolis and his in
terest in the Indiana Medical College, a
| branch of the University of Indianapolis,
| as professor of clinical medicine, to seek
| retirement at his old home in Mooresville.
There he built residence on hilltop
overlooking the valley of his birthplace
and which he surrounded with flowers and
natural beauties which were always a
source of delight to him in his recreations
and things in which he took the interest
of student of botany as diversion. He
lived in Mooresville attending to such pro-
| fessional work as called him to the prac-
strenuous existence as physician in In
| dianapols.
composed of Drs. Theodore Potter, Guido
Bell and a. c. Kimberln will draft suit
| able resolutions to be heard and adopted
by the Marion County Medical Society at
a meeting to be held In the Willoughby
building. The committee was named last
night by President w. E. Jeffries of the
| society and the death of DR.. Hadley was
discussed by the members Informally. The
| funeral will be held from the Friends
Church. of this city. corner of Alabama
| and Thirteenth streets, and the burial will
| be in Crown Hill Cemetery at 2 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. The funeral will be
attended by the medical fraternity of this
city and vicinity in body.
BORN IN MOORESvILLE.
| DR.. Evan Hadley was born in Moores-
vile. Ind, Jan. A. 1S45, of pioneer stock.
| He received his common school education
| in his native town and graduated from its
high school, Three years in Earlham Col
lege completed his civil education and
after a course in the Medical College of
Indiana he graduated with its first class in
1862 In 1869 and 1870 DIR. Hadley served as
an inferno in the City Hospital, and for
the two years following this he was the
| superintendent of that institution. After
this service DR.. Hadley entered the Long
Island Medical College, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
| for postgraduate course in surgery. He
| was a student and associate i'm the office
| of DIR. Thomas B. Harvey, of this city. a
| distant relative, and that physician was
| his preceptor. During the earlier years
of his practice in indianapolis DR.. Hadley
| lived on the South Side of the city for
| many years, ON Fletcher avenue. In 1890
| he moved to home on North Illinois
street and lived there until his departure
from this city to live in Mooresville. His
! last professional partnership in this city
was with DIR. A. c. Kimberlin.
DR.. Hadiey was president of the Marion
| County Medical Society in 1883 and for
many years was attending and consulting
physician in the charitable institutions Of
| the city. He was physician who willing
| ly attended charity patients even to the
| sacrifice of more lucrative practice. His
conscientious and indiscriminate attend
ance on patients won for him clientele of
friends who mourn his death and were
| grieved at his departure from the city.
DIR. Hadley was a consulting physician dur
ing the last illness of President Benjamin
| Harrison and was an attendant at the bed
| zens at their death.
TRIBUTES OF FRIENDS.
| DR.. s. II. Moore and DR.. Hadley were
members of the first class graduated from
| Indiana Medical College in 1869. DR.. Moore
taking his preparatory course at Michigan
| University and DR.. Hadley going to
| New York until the Indiana Col
| lege was opened. DR.. Moore said last
night: "Dr. Hadley was martyr to his
profession. No physician ever worked
| harder than he. After retiring from the
| superintendency of the City Hospital he
| labored tirelessly and ceaselessly as q
| family practitioner He answered hundreds
I of calls merely as an act of humanity
knowing his patients were unable to pay.
A summons from a wealthy home meant
no more to him in professional way than
| call from a humble cottage. His quiet
| dignity and gentle manners impressed pa
tients and many who had lost hope became
| encouraged by his words and gained
| new lease on life. He rarely abandoned a
| case. While there is life there is hope
was his motto and his skill was exerted
| to strengthen the hope. While he gained
eminence in his profession family
| physician, he made speciality Of children
| diseases His lectures at the Indiana Med
| ical College and the City Hospital took up
much of his time. l have known him to
work sixteen to eighteen hours day until
| he became worn out, when he would slip
! out of the city a few days for a hunt or a
| fish. 1 often prescribed for him the same
remedy he was wont to prescribe for his
| rundown patients-a week or ten days
| with rod or gun. His unselfishness and
humaneness led him TO overwork himself
| and aggravated the trouble that caused his
death 1 sorry he is dead, for he was a
man among men. AS Drumshugh says
| In the Bonnie Brer Bush at the funeral
of Lachlan Campbell. He will be missed
| by the BARNS.
| Another friend of Dr. Hadley, who knew
| him intimately for nearly thirty years
! said: 'Dr. Hadleys chief traits of char
acter were conscientiousnesS, modesty, de-
votion to his profession and love of nature
| Having been his companion on numerous
hunting and fishing trips / had ample op-
| acter. He was of retiring disposition and
unassuming to fault. He was fond of
wild fowl shooting and fishing and his only
recreation were trips to the widest por-
( tions of Indana-along the Kankakee and
| the Tippecanoe rivers. to the lakes in the
northern portion of the State, to Brown
| county. with occasional visits to his old
and flowers and knew almost every species.
/ Around the campfire at night he was a
! lovable companion, unsparing with his
knowledge of the wild creatures and wild
| plants we saw or gathered. There was a
| vein of humor in him that cropped out
sometimes in quiet. dry joke that al
| ways was effective No vulgar allusion or
suggestion ever passed his lips. He was
! sympathetic to a high degree. Several
| ices to sick people whom he found in lone
F.! ly homes by the river or lake. His parents
were Quakers and for many years, espe-
cially at his home, the quaint manners and
| speech of the goodly sect were observed
In the city here his spare moments were