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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  W. M. EVANS, president of the Worthington National Bank, has been in the

banking business in Worthington fourteen years, as cashier and manager of the

Nobles County Bank and in his present position.



  Mr. Evans descends from one of the old American families. Four brothers came

from Wales in colonial days and founded the American branch of the family, some

members of which became quite prominent in the affairs of the country. Our

subject's great great grandfather was a veteran of the Revolutionary war. In a

very early day members of the Evans family moved to Iowa territory and became

prominent in the early history of that commonwealth. Lyman Evans, the great

grandfather of our subject, came to Iowa in 1838 and settled in what later

became Clinton county. That county was organized March 1, 1840, and its first

election was held at the home of Lyman Evans on April 6, 1840. That gentleman

was also a member of the Iowa constitutional convention which convened at Iowa

City Oct. 7, 1844, and was in session until Nov. 1, of same year. He and Ralph

R. Benedict represented Clinton county. Our subject's grandfather was Charles

Evans and his father was John M. Evans, who was born in Dewitt, Iowa territory,

in 1844. The latter started a drug store in 1874, which he conducted twenty

years, and then retired from active pursuits. He served six years as postmaster

of Gowrie, Iowa, having been appointed by President Grover Cleveland during his

first administration. John M. Evans died in June, 1898. Our subject's mother is

Elizabeth (Evans) Evans, born at Akron, N. Y., in 1847, and now residing in

Gowrie, Iowa.



  W. M. Evans was born at Dewitt, Clinton county, Iowa, Oct. 28, 1866, and in

that place lived with his parents until 1874, when they moved to Gowrie, Webster

county. In the latter place Mr. Evans resided twenty years. He attended the

public schools of Gowrie and completed his education in the high school at

Bedford, Taylor county, Iowa. At the age of eighteen years, he quit school and

engaged in farming on his father's farm near Gowrie, and was thus engaged nine

years.



  Mr. Evans was married at Gowrie April 26, 1893, to Jennie Lynd, daughter of E.

A. and Mary E. Lynd, who settled at Gowrie in 1872. Mr. Lynd was the owner of

the town site of that village. He now resides in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Lynd

died in September, 1906. After his marriage Mr. Evans sold the farm, bought

stock in the Bank of Gowrie and became its assistant cashier.



  In the fall of 1894 he purchased a half interest in the Nobles County Bank, at

Worthington. and until the next spring operated it in partnership with Peter

Thompson. On May 15, 1895, E. A. Lynd purchased Mr. Thompson's interest in the

bank, and thereafter the institution was owned and managed by Lynd & Evans. The

latter became cashier of the bank and was its manager until the reorganization

in the present year. At first quarters were in the Torrance block, but in 1899,

Mr. Evans erected the building in which the institution has ever since been. On

Jan. 15, 1908, the Nobles County Bank was reorganized into the Worthington

National Bank, and Mr. Evans became its president. Mr. Evans is a member of

Fraternity Lodge No. 101, A. F. & A. M., and for five years was secretary of the

lodge.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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