BIO:  Edward W. Evans, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 163

EDWARD W. EVANS was born in the slate district of north Wales, December 7, 1838, and came to 
America in 1860.  He located in Peach Bottom Township, where he began work for John Humphrey in 
his slate quarry.  In the spring of 1861 he went to California, where he, for several years, 
engaged in gold mining with varied success.  He afterward traveled extensively through New 
Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, meeting with numerous adventures in those almost unexplored 
regions.  In 1865 he came East, and was employed about two years in Utica and in Washington 
County, N. Y.  On his return to Pennsylvania in 1868, he engaged in mercantile business at West 
Bangor, as a member of the firm of William E. Williams & Co., where he remained four years.  He 
then resumed work as a quarryman, and has been so engaged ever since.  In December, 1881, he 
leased about ten acres of slate land, and reopened a quarry.  After working a year and a half 
to remove the accumulated rubbish, he has succeeded in developing a paying quarry.  He married 
Miss Mary F. Roberts, at West Bangor, in 1869.  She is of Welsh parents, and was born on the 
ocean, while her parents were on their way to America.  They have one child – Hugh.  Mr. Evans 
is one of the trustees of Esdraelon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and is a Republican.