BIO: Micaiah R. EVANS, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 76-77.
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  MICAIAH R. EVANS, M.D., Huntingdon, Pa., was born in what is now Henderson 
township of this county, April 5, 1843, son of Abraham and Mary (Corbin) 
Evans.  Both parents were natives and lifelong residents of Huntingdon 
county, where Mr. Evans was a farmer.  Only three of their family of nine 
children are now living:  Jane Elizabeth (Mrs. John Cornelius), of Mount 
Union, Pa.; Dr. Micaiah R.; and Mary Ann (Mrs. George A. Clime), of 
Philadelphia.  The father died July 31, 1878, and the mother in 1851.
  Dr. Evans spent his boyhood on the homestead farm, and was educated in the 
common schools of his township.  His school training ended, he devoted 
himself alternately to teaching and to farming, until 1876, interrupted only 
by service in behalf of the Union during the war of the Rebellion.  Three 
times he enlisted; first, in August, 1861, in Company C, Forty-ninth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, for three years, or during the war; served over 
eight months, and was discharged on account of sickness; next June 1863, in 
Company A, Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving again for eight months; and once 
more, in September, 1864, in Company G, Two Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, in which regiment he served until the close of the war, and was 
mustered out near Alexandria, Va., in June 1865.  The claims of patriotism 
thus satisfied, he returned home, and attended school several sessions at 
Cassville Seminary and Milnwood Academy, afterward adding to his labors as 
teacher, the study of medicine.  In 1876 he matriculated at Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, and graduated in the spring of 1878.  On May 
6, 1878, Dr. Evans began practice in Oneida township, Huntingdon county, and 
continued three and a half years; then practiced with success for eight 
years in Saxon, Bedford county, Pa., and since October 29, 1889, has been 
numbered among the trusted physicians of Huntingdon.  The Doctor is a member 
of the Huntingdon County Medical Society and of the State Medical Society of 
Pennsylvania.
  The Doctor's political convictions are Republican.
  Dr. Micaiah R. Evans was married in Philadelphia, March 16, 1876, to Sarah 
Alice, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Garner) Peightel, of Walker township, 
Huntingdon county.  They have three children:  Ernest Newton; Mary Bertha; 
and Lillian May.  The family are members of the Reformed church, of which 
body the Doctor is a deacon.