Tuscola-Hillsdale County MI Archives Biographies.....Eveland, Joseph And Thomas J. 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOSEPH AND THOMAS J. EVELAND. These brothers are numbered among the wide-awake
and enterprising attorneys of Tuscola County and are members of the firm of
Eveland, Knickerbocker & Co., proprietors of the Bank of Mayville, and also of
the Antrim County Bank. Their father, Abel Eveland, was born in New Jersey and
was left an orphan when very young, so that he grew to manhood under the care of
an aunt. He early engaged in boat building and afterward in mercantile pursuits
and while pursuing these vocations studied law and was admitted to the bar. In
later years he was an extensive lumberman in New York and Canada and
subsequently in Michigan. He still resides in New York and has represented his
district in the Legislature of the Empire State.

  Matilda Houck was the maiden name of the mother of our subjects, and she is
the mother of six children, namely: Alonzo, Catherine (Mrs. Byron Ferris), Mary
(Mrs. Lee W. Putnam), Isaac and the subjects of this sketch. These brothers were
born in Bradford, Steuben County, N. Y., Joseph, September 15, 1851, and Thomas,
January 19, 1854. After being educated in the Bradford Academy and Starkey
Seminary they engaged in teaching, Joseph becoming Principal of the schools at
Wayne and at Tyrone, N. Y. He read law in the office of Judge William Rumsey, of
Bath, N. Y., and in 1885 was admitted to the bar. In due time Thomas J. became
Principal of the schools at Bradford, Tyrone, Monterey, and Sonora, N. Y., and
of the Allen school in Hillsdale County, Mich. He also took a course of law at
the University at Ann Arbor, graduating in the Class of '82 and beginning his
practice in his native State.

  In 1885 these brothers became associated with H. Knickerbocker, Esq., and
located at Mayville, where they organized the Bank of Mayville, and in 1891
started the bank at Mancelona, Mich., which is known as the Antrim County Bank.
They are still carrying on the practice of law and also deal in real estate.

  The marriage of Joseph Eveland, December 5, 1886, gave him a wife in the
person of Clara, daughter of Jacob Carman of Bradford, N. Y. He is a Democrat
politically as is also his brother, and he has held the office of Railroad
Bonding Commissioner in the town of Bradford, N. Y., and is now President of the
Village Board of Mayville. Thomas J. was married May 11, 1885, to Allie,
daughter of William R. Head, and they have one child, Hazel. This gentleman is
the attorney for the city of Mayville.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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