BIO:  EVANS, William L., s/o Harmon & Mary (Lamb) Evans

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

EVANS   LAMB   LOGAN   HOTTELL

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Barr Twp., page 814

WILLIAM L. EVANS, retired physician of Barr Township, Daviess Co., Ind., is
a son of Harmon and Mary (Lamb) Evans.  The father was born in Kentucky in
1803, and the mother in Ohio in 1807.  They were married in Harrison County,
Ind., in 1821, and there spent their lives.  The father, who was a farmer,
died in 1874, and the mother in 1848.  William L. was born in Indiana in
1830, and after attending the common schools he was a student in the
academy of New Albany, Ind., for some time.  In 1851 he began the study of
medicine under A.M. Jones, of Corydon, with whom he staid three years.  Two
years later he attended the medical college of Louisville, Ky., but a short
time before graduation was compelled to go home on account of sickness.  In
1854 he began practicing his profession in Mt. Pleasant, and six years later
went to Loogootee, and then moved to Montgomery, where he continued to reside
until 1876, when he retired to the farm of 220 acres on which he now lives, 
but is often called upon to do duty as a physician by his many friends.  In 
1858 he was married to Mary A. Logan, born in Ohio in 1834.  They have three 
children: Eugene H., William L. and Logan W.  Mrs. Evans died in 1868, and 
five years later Mr. Evans was married to Mary E. Hottell, born in 1845.  
They have three children:  Walter A., John W. and Francis O.  Mr. Evans is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his wife of the United Brethren 
Church.
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