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COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES
M r. E van s is a descendant o f M ark Evans, who founded the faniiiy in Columbia county about a century af;u. He w as a native o f Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster Co., I ’a. F o r a time he lived in Pcnnsdale, Lycom ing Co., Pa., a fte r some years moving to “ Shinn Street,” which later became the eastern part o f M illville. H e followed farm ing and lum bering, as well as his trade o f carpenter and cabinetmaker, becoming one of the well known men o f his day in his section. H e dictl in that township, and is buried there. H e w as a member of the Society o f Friends. H is children w ere: Esther, who died unmar ried; Anna, who m arried Joseph Shannon; Sarah, who married Thom as M cG cc; Elsie, who married Jerem iah H eacock; Jo siah, a Lutheran minister, and Jacob, the father o f Issachar M . Evans. Jaco b Evans w as bom probably in Greenw o ^ townsliip and passed all but the last few years o f his life there. H e w as reared on the farm, but learning the carpenter’s trade, was engaged principally at such work until he rcachcil middle life, when he turned to farm ing and followed it the rest o f his active years. A fte r retiring he lived at Bloomsburg, where he died Sept. 3, 18 7 4; he is buried in Greenwoochool. Subsequently he attended the Bloomsburg Normal, during the spring, leach ing in the winter season to d efray the cost of tuition, and he w as graduated in 1894. A fte r that he taught various schools in the county, and w as the first principal of the Orange’ille school a fte r its purchase hy the township from the Orangeville Sem inary stockholders. F o l low'ing (his experience he taught at Huntingt<Ki M ills and W est Pittston, both in Luzerne county. H e took a college course at (he Uni versity o f Wooster, in Ohio, whence he re turned to Bloomsburg to teach in the high school, lieing thus engaged until he assunie<l the county supcrintcndency, to which he was elected in M ay, icyw. H is devotion h.as been so sincere, his efficiency so indispiiiahJe. that he has been reelected to succeed himself tcmi
