Marshall-Livingston County IL Archives Biographies.....Evans, Andrew  December 28, 1856 - 1908
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Author: Chapman Brothers, Chicago 1888

                             Andrew J. Evans
	Andrew J. Evans is one of the active and enterprising young men who have
materially assisted in making an important local business center of Saunemin,
and in his enterprises has met with a good measure of success. He is a general
dealer in all kinds of agricultural implements, as well as buggies, wagons, etc.
	Mr. Evans is a native of Tennessee, where he was born on the 28th of December,
1856. He is the son of Jeremiah and Matilda Evans, both of whom died when our
subject was about four and one-half years of age. The father died first, and the
mother came to Marshall County, Ill., our subject accompanying her, and there
resided a few years. After the death of his mother Andrew went to Centralia,
Ill., where he lived in the family of George A. Bliss for about six years, when
at the age of fifteen he began the battle of life for himself. He worked as a
farm hand near Centralia about two years, and then returned to  Marshall County,
Ill., where he engaged at work upon the farm for three years. At the end of this
time he rented a farm in the same neighborhood, which he cultivated successfully
for the next two years.
	On the 19th of January, 1881, Mr. Evans was married, in Livingston County, to
Miss Rachel Norman, a daughter of William Norman, of Saunemin Township, this
county. They have had three children, two of whom are living – Eva M. and Jessie
H. Mr. Evans first came to Livingston County in the spring of 1878, and for nine
years thereafter cultivated his 80-acre farm, one mile south of Eylar, living
alone the first year, and  attending to the household as well as the farm
duties. Mr. Evans still owns the farm, on which he has placed first-class
improvements. He began his present business in January, 1887, and has already
become convinced that in this line he will be as successful as he heretofore has
been as an agriculturist. Having been reared upon a farm and followed that
occupation until the present year, he is thoroughly conversant with the needs of
the farmers, and can supply them with just such implements as are best adapted
to that section of the country. Mr. Evans having been left an orphan at a tender
age, necessarily encountered many drawbacks in his early career, but he went to
work with the determination and will to solve the problems of life, and he has
succeeded. In the fullest meaning of the words he is a self-made man, and
deserves much credit for what he has accomplished.
	Mr. and Mrs. Evans are both members of the Christian Church, and take part in
all the society events of the neighborhood. Mr. Evans has satisfactorily served
in the capacity of School Director, and warmly entered into the work with a will
to elevate the standard of education and add to the efficiency of the public
schools.


Portrait and Biographical Album of Livingston County, Illinois
Chapman Brothers, Chicago 1888

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