Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: EVANS, Evan E. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 8

       EVAN E. EVANS.

	Evan E. Evans is prominently known in business circles of Denver 
as president and treasurer of the Evans Investment Company which is the 
owner of the Evans block and other buildings of the city. Here he was 
born on the 26th of June, 1863, when Colorado was still under 
territorial rule and when his father was serving as the second 
territorial governor. He is a son of Hon. John and Margaret P. .(Gray) 
Evans, who are mentioned at length upon another page of this work. When 
the father passed away he was survived by his widow and three children, 
the daughter being Anne Evans, while the sons were William G. and Evan 
E., of this review. The mother passed away in Denver in 1906. 

	In early life Evan E. Evans attended the public schools of Denver 
and afterward had the benefit of Instruction in a boarding school in 
London, England, for two years. He next became a student in the 
Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, of which his father had 
been one of the founders. He spent a year there and then went to 
Indiana, where he entered business life on his own account. 
Subsequently he removed to Los Angeles, California, where he engaged in 
merchandising from the early '80s until 1889. Returning to the east, he 
took up his abode in Chicago, where he engaged in the insurance 
business for several years, but In 1895 he again came to his native 
city, where he entered into the insurance and investment business, in 
which he has since been engaged. At the same time he has been 
identified with many other big business enterprises of city and state 
as a director and officer. His real estate holdings are extensive, 
important and profitable. 

	In April, 1912, Mr. Evans was married in Hoboken, New Jersey, to 
Kathryn Farrel, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Farrel, of Wheeling, 
West Virginia. Madelyn Evans, daughter by a former marriage, was born 
in New York city in 1903. Mr. Evans is a member of the Denver Athletic 
Club, also the Denver Country Club, the Denver Civic and Commercial 
Association, the Rocky Mountain Club of New York city, the Phi Kappa 
Sigma, a Greek letter fraternity, and other social organizations. He 
has never sought to figure prominently in public connections as his 
father did but has along the lines of business become recognized as one 
of Denver's most representative citizens and ranks equally high in 
social circles.