Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Evans, William H April 21, 1867 - 
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Author:  Colonel William Parsons

Page 339, 340

WILLIAM  H. EVANS 
	Prominent among the younger wool growers and agriculturists of this 
county stands the man whose name is at the head of this article, whose 
industry and wise economy have placed him from the foot of the ladder to his 
present position of distinction, and bid fair to raise him to the front rank 
of the leaders.
	A native of this state, being born at Eugene on April 21, 1867, he has 
clung to the west, assured that it is the place for wealth to be obtained. At 
five years of age he came with his parents to East Birch creek, near Pilot 
Rock, where they engaged in stock growing. Here he received a good education 
from the district schools, and at the early age of fifteen entered the 
struggle of life for himself, working for wages for nine years, most of the 
time in the stock business. At the end of this period he had saved sufficient 
funds to warrant him entering business for himself, and accordingly bought a 
bunch of sheep in connection with T. J. Tweedy, also purchased a section of 
land. Here he continued for six years, and then sold out. Succeeding this he 
worked for wages for two years, and then purchased his present place of one 
thousand acres one-half mile southwest from Pilot Rock, where he gives his 
entire attention to wool growing, operating about four thousand sheep, half of 
which he owns.
     On December 22, 1893, in the city of Pendleton, he was married to Mrs. 
Leah E. Shull, nee Wells, a native of Oregon, whose father and mother were 
natives respectively of Indiana and Massachusetts, and came to the Pacific 
coast while still children, but are now deceased. By her former husband Mrs. 
Evans has one child, Willie J., now attending school. Mr. Evans’ father is 
still living in Montana and engaged in the sheep business. In fraternal 
affiliations our subject is associated with the Pioneers of the Pacific, the 
United Artisans of Pilot Rock, and the W. of W. of Pendleton. It is a matter 
of reminiscent interest that the old immigrant road lay right through what is 
now the farm of Mr. Evans. Just beginning the race of life under such 
favorable circumstances, have surmounted already the most rugged barriers, and 
blessed with the confidence and esteem of his fellows, it is safe to predict 
that there will be manifest in the career of the subject of this sketch a 
brilliant success, coupled with a life of moral uprightness that will be 
exemplary.


Additional Comments:
 An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

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