Biographical Sketch of Thomas Everson, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Thomas Everson, foreman of the shops of the 'Frisco branch of the Salem
& Little Rock Railroad, was born at Carlisle, Penn., in 1833, and is a
son of George R. and Sarah A. Everson, natives of Pennsylvania, and of
English and German descent, respectively.  After their marriage the
parents settled in Carlisle, where the father engaged in carpentering;
they are now residents of Altoona, Penn., and members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.  In the family of nine children, five sons and four
daughters, Thomas is the eldest.  One son, Charles, is a machinist, 
and George R. was killed at the battle of South Mountain during the
late war.  Thomas Everson received a very limited education, and when
young began working at the carpenter's trade, at which he continued
until seventeen years of age, when he learned the trade of a machinist
in the shops at Cincinnati, Ohio; he then returned to Altoona, Penn.,
and for the following eight years worked in the shops of the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railroad.  He then went to Pittsburg, Penn., and in 1875
was called to his present position.  In 1855 he married Emma Jacobs, a
native of Pennsylvania, and of their ten children only four are living.
Mr. Everson is a Republican in politics, a Mason and a member of the
A. O. U. W., and Select Knights, also belongs to the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.

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