Dr. Otho Evans
Dr. Otho Evans, now a resident of Franklin, Warren County, and who has been so since 1827, located at Jacksonburg , April 21, 1821, and remained there six years. At that time Middletown had two physicians, and Hamilton three of four, Trenton one, one at Oxford, one at Camden, one at Eaton, one at Germantown, and two at Franklin. During the six years that Dr. Evans was here, the Miami and Erie Canal was commenced, and Ohio inaugurated the free school system. The roads were in a terrible condition. There was not a bridge over four feet wide in the township, nor a buggy in the State. About that time the Dearborn wagons, with wooden springs, were introduced. The following gentlemen were students of Dr. Evans: Lewis Evans, Johnson I. Phares, John C. Fall, John P. Haggott, and Pliny M. Crume.
From A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers, Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.