Bio of Evans, J. H. Wabasha Co., MN
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Evans, J. H., county commissioner for district No. 4, embracing townships
of Greenfield, Glasgow, and the city of Wabasha; is of Welsh descent, a
native of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and had learned the trade of
compositor before coming to Wabasha, in April, 1856, at which time he was
eighteen years of age. He had also acquired a knowledge of the plasterer's
trade, and after coming to this city followed that and type-setting for
some years, his last winter at the case being 1865. His first contracts
were taken at nineteen years of age, the second year that he spent in this
city. In 1857 he commenced work as a mason with his brother-in-law, N. B.
Lutz, and was in partnership with him until that gentleman removed to Lake
City, in 1864. Since then Mr. Evans has been actively engaged in working
at his trade, contracting for the erection of buildings, either alone or
in company with others, superintending his farms, attending to county
business, and in such other occupations as his personal inclinations or
the public business demanded. He owns a farm of three hundred acres in
sections 3 and 4, township 110 and 111, and ranges 10 and 11, and an
undivided half in a tract of one hundred and sixty acres, owned by the
stock firm of Evans and Penny. His residence on Second street, just north
of the public school building, was erected by him in 1862 and has been the
home of the family for the past twenty-one years. His official services
rendered the city and county have extended through the greater part of the
past twenty years, since his first election as alderman in 1862. He has
been mayor of the city three years of that time, alderman of his ward four
years, and is now serving his seventh year as county commissioner for this
district. October 29, 1860, Mr. Evans married Miss Sara Duhamel, a
resident of this city since 1857. Their children are: Maggie, born June
30, 1864; Mamie, born January 12, 1866; Harry, born November 15, 1869;
William, born December 18, 1871; Fannie, born March 3, 1877.