MSS 870 Evans Family Papers

              OHIO
H I S T O R Y MSS 870
Evans Family Papers
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Collection Synopsis
Provenance: The Ohio H i s t o r i c a l S o c i e t y acquired the Evans Family
Papers as a g i f t of Leon E . Schwab; Howard R . Schwab; Ellen P o r t e r
Pendery, Carol P o r t e r McGui re; Joseph S . Evans J r . ; Wendell I .
Evans; Donald A . Evans; and Hayden S. P o r t e r ( deceased) through
Wendell I . Evans in August 1984. Robert W . Viol processed the
c o l l e c t i o n i n December 1984.
Property r i g h t s : The Ohio H i s t o r i c a l Society owns t h e property
r i g h t s to t h i s c o l l e c t i o n .
Copyrights: Any copyrights such as the donors may possess in t h i s
c o l l e c t i o n a r e hereby not dedicated t o the public u n t i l January 1 ,
1988. Consideration o n h e requirements o f copyright are the
r e s p o n s i b i l i t y of the author and p u b l i s h e r .
Access: This c o l l e c t i o n i s open under the r u l e s and r e g u l a t i o n s
of the Ohio H i s t o r i c a l Society.
C i t a t i o n : Researchers are requested t o c i t e c o l l e c t i o n name,
c o l l e c t i o n number, and the Ohio H i s t o r i c a l Society in a l l f o o t -
note and b i b l i o g r a p h i c r e f e r e n c e s .
Biographical s k e t c h e s : Andrew Evans was born near Aberdeen,
Huntington Township, Ohio, on December 9 , 1809, the son of John
Evans J r . and Mary ( Hough) Evans. Andrew married Mary, the daughter
of William and Mary ( Daniels) H i e t t on June 13, 1833. The couale had
ten c h i l d r e n : Samuel, twin boys William H . and Abraham F . , John B . ,
Amos A., Mary, I s a b e l l a E . , A n n D . , Joseph H . , and Lee A .
Andrew Evans served the township i n s e v e r a l p o l i t i c a l c a p a c i t i e s
including J u s t i c e of the Peace, a p o s i t i o n he held f o r twelve
consecutive y e a r s . I n the f a l l of 1864 Evans was e l e c t e d to
r e p r e s e n t Brown County, Ohio, i n t h e s t a t e l e g i s l a t u r e . He was
the f i r s t Republican incumbent of t h a t o f f i c e ever e l e c t e d from
Brown County. While in o f f i c e he supported l e g i s l a t i o n to p r o t e c t
the i n t e r e s t s of the Civil War s o l d i e r and h i s dependents.
Evans was a member of the Huntington P r e s b y t e r i a n Church and a Ruling
Elder. He died in 1879 a t the age of seventy.
Samuel Evans, son of Andrew Evans, was born near Aberdeen, Huntington
Township, Brown County, Ohio, on April 1 8 , 1834. A t age t h i r t e e n he
began l e a r n i n g t h e b l a c k s v i t h t r a d e and s e r v e d a s a n a p p r e n t i c e f o r
seven y e a r s . Samuel a l s o taught two terms a t a d i s t r l ' c t s c h o o l ,
" twenty l e s s o n s " in grammar school, and several c l a s s e s in vocal music.
I n 1855 he purchased a f l o u r mill b u i l t by h i s g r e a t - g r a n d f a t h e r i n
1828. He was a loyal Democrat u n t i l t h e f a l l of Fort Sumter ( 1861)
when he endorsed P r e s i d e n t L i n c o l n ' s p o l i t i c a l p o l i c i e s .
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