BIO: H. M. Evans, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

551  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  H. M. EVANS, freight agent for the Harrisburg & Potomac Railroad 
Company, Boiling Springs, was born in Carroll Township, York Co., 
Penn., December 31, 1851, son of John and Elizabeth (Miller) Evans, 
also natives of York County.  Our subject's mother 

552  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

was of German descent; his father, of Welsh lineage, was a land 
surveyor, and for many years followed his profession in York County.  
He, John Evans, moved to Newville, Cumberland County in 1863; was 
justice of the peace, and held several other offices of trust.  He died 
in 1883.  H. M. Evans' paternal grandfather was an officer in the war 
of 1812.  Our subject is the elder in a family of two children, and 
grew to manhood in Cumberland County, attending the school in Newville 
and afterward Dickinson College, whence he graduated in 1874.  He then 
studied surveying, and worked at it with his father for a time, but at 
the age of twenty-three accepted the position of freight agent, and has 
served in that capacity ever since.  He was married, in 1881, to Laura 
E., daughter of John Beetem, and a native of this county, of German 
origin.  To this union has been born one child:  Maud Elizabeth.  Mrs. 
Evans is a member of the Lutheran Church.  In politics Mr. Evans is a 
Democrat.