Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....EVANS, Charles C. 1858 - living in 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com July 3, 2005, 6:11 pm Author: Biographical Publishing Co. CHARLES C. EVANS, attorney and counselor-at-law, residing and practicing in the town of Berwick, was born in Briarcreek township, Columbia County, Pa., January 10, 1858. His preparatory education was obtained in the common schools of the district and at the Bloomsburg State Normal School. During the winter of 1876-77 he taught the Martzville public school in Briarcreek township. In the fall of 1877 he entered Lafayette College, taking a four years' course, and was graduated therefrom in June, 1881. In July, 1881, he entered the office of Hon. Simon P. Wolverton as a law student, and was admitted to the Northumberland County Bar July 14, 1883. In August of the same year he opened a law office in the borough of Berwick, Columbia County. On February 23, 1888, our subject married Annie Wendle Sloan, the youngest daughter of Morris C. Sloan, of Bloomsburg, Pa. Mr. Evans is president of the Berwick Water Company and the Berwick School Board. He enjoys a large and lucrative law practice. Politically, Mr. Evans is a Republican. In the fall of 1898 the judicial conferees of Columbia County were instructed for Mr. Evans as a candidate for president judge of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb