Alvin Evans
Alvin Evans | |
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![]() Alvin Evans | |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 19th district | |
In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905 | |
Preceded by | Robert Jacob Lewis |
Succeeded by | John Merriman Reynolds |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th district | |
In office March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903 | |
Preceded by | Joseph Earlston Thropp |
Succeeded by | Daniel F. Lafean |
Personal details | |
Born | Ebensburg, Pennsylvania | October 4, 1845
Died | June 19, 1906 Ebensburg, Pennsylvania | (aged 60)
Political party | Republican |
Alvin Evans (October 4, 1845 – June 19, 1906) was a lawyer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.[1][2][3]
Formative years and family[]
Born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1845, Alvin Evans was a son of David J. and Jane Ann (Jones) Evans and a grandson of John Evans, a carpenter and a native of Cardiganshire, Wales. Educated in the public schools of his community and at the in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alvin Evins obtained a job in lumbering at the age of sixteen when his father's business failed due to the financial crash of 1857.[4][5][6]
He wed Kate Shryock (1846-1886) in Wilmore, Pennsylvania on November 17, 1875. They were the parents of: John Edgar Evans (1876-1967), Charles Shryock Evans (1878-1959), and Alvin Waldo Evans (1882-1971).[7]
American Civil War[]
In 1862, Alvin Evans enlisted with a volunteer military unit,[8] which was mobilized in response to the potential invasion of Pennsylvania by the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.[9]
Legal and political career[]
After beginning legal studies with George M. Reade of Ebensburg in 1870, he was admitted to the bar in 1873. He then opened a law practice in Ebensburg,[10][11] and later advocated for clients in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, as well as in federal court. A one-term burgess for the borough of Ebensburg, he also worked as solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and was a member of the school board and city council of Ebensburg. Involved in the incorporation of the First National Bank of Ebensburg, he was later appointed as president of that bank's board of directors.[12]
Elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses,[13] he did not seek renomination in 1904,[14][15] but instead returned to the practice of law.[16]
A member of the board of trustees of the First Congregational Church of Ebensburg, he was also active in the Grand Army of the Republic's Captain John M. Jones Post and the Free and Accepted Masons' Summit Lodge, No. 312.[17]
Death and interment[]
Evans died in Ebensburg, and was interred in the Lloyd Cemetery.[18][19]
References[]
- ^ "Evans, Alvin," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (CongBio|E000232). Washington, DC: Office of the House Historian, U.S. House of Representatives, retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ The Political Graveyard.
- ^ "A. Evans Kephart, 102, former senator" (obituary of Alvin Evans' grandson). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 18, 2008.
- ^ Storey, Henry Wilson. History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 3: "Hon. Alvin Evans." New York, New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907.
- ^ "Evans, Alvin," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (CongBio|E000232), Office of the House Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.
- ^ The Political Graveyard.
- ^ Storey, Henry Wilson, History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 3: "Hon. Alvin Evans."
- ^ "Evans, Alvin," in Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives, retrieved online, June 7, 2021.
- ^ "Evans, Alvin," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (CongBio|E000232), Office of the House Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.
- ^ Storey, Henry Wilson, History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 3: "Hon. Alvin Evans."
- ^ Alvin Evans, in "William Davis," in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, p. 397. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Union Publishing Company, 1896.
- ^ "Evans, Alvin," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (CongBio|E000232), Office of the House Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.
- ^ "A. Evans Kephart, 102, former senator," The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 18, 2008.
- ^ Evans, Susan. "Historic cemetery is trying to raise funds to cover expenses." Johnstown, Pennsylvania: The Tribune-Democrat, August 16, 2008.
- ^ The Political Graveyard .
- ^ "Evans, Alvin," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (CongBio|E000232), Office of the House Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.
- ^ Storey, Henry Wilson, History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 3: "Hon. Alvin Evans."
- ^ "Evans, Alvin," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (CongBio|E000232), Office of the House Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.
- ^ The Political Graveyard.
- 1845 births
- 1906 deaths
- People from Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
- American people of Welsh descent
- Pennsylvania Republicans
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- Politicians from Pittsburgh
- American bankers
- Union Army soldiers
- People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century American politicians
- 19th-century American businesspeople