Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - J. E. Evans
J. E. EVANS
J. E. Evans, a
tile manufacturer, Magnetic Springs, was born in Union County, December
14, 1854. He is a son of Jacob M. and Rebecca (Stratton) Evans. His
father was a native of Virginia and emigrated to Ohio at the age of
nine years, he was of Welsh and German ancestry. Our subject was raised
on a farm, attending the district schools as occasion offered, and
followed farm life until eighteen years of age, when he engaged in the
manufacture of drain tile, in which he has met with good success. He
now has facilities for burning eighteen kilns or 360 rods at a time. He
was married September 1, 1882, to Dora Wetzel, a daughter of Abraham
Rod Fanny Wetzel, and a native of Pennsylvania, born September 1, 1864.