Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Evans MD, Henry J. January 8, 1855 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY J. EVANS, M. D.,
one of the younger members of the medical fraternity in Altoona, and a
graduate of the Hahnemann Medical college, of Philadelphia, who has achieved
success and position in his profession, is a son of John N. and Mary (Evans)
Evans, and was born January 8, 1855, at Rhymmey, Monmouthshire, Wales.
Nicholas Evans (grandfather) was born, lived and died in Wales. He was a
carpenter by trade, married, and reared a large family. Among his sons was
John N. Evans (father), who was born in Wales in 1825, and lived in his
native land until he was thirty-six years of age. In 1861 he came to America
with his family, and located that same year in Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania. He resided there for some time, but later removed to Shamokin,
Northumberland county, where he died in 1885, aged sixty years. He was a
miner by occupation, and took an intelligent interest in, and actively
promoted measures calculated to improve the conditions of the laboring
classes of this country. In politics he was a republican, and a Latter-day
Saint in religious belief. He married Mary Evans, by whom he had a family of
eight children: Ann, Elizabeth, Henry J., Nicholas, Mary, Agnes, John A., and
Susan. The latter three were born in America and the others in Wales.
   Henry J. Evans received his early education in the common schools of
Pennsylvania, and later took a course of training in the Millersville State
Normal school, and supplemented that by a course at Mt. Pleasant seminary, in
Berks county. He then became a teacher, and followed that occupation for
several years, during part of which time he served as principal of a graded
school at Shamokin. When he was yet engaged in teaching, he began the study
of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. M. M. Harple, of Shamokin,
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and in 1879 entered the Hahnemann
Medical college, in Philadelphia, from which he graduated in March, 1881,
with the degree of M. D. he soon after located at Tyrone, this county, where
he opened an office, and was successfully engaged in the practice of medicine
until December, 1881, when he removed to Altoona. In this city he has since
resided, devoting his time principally to his profession, in which he has
been very successful, but incidentally interested in coal mining in Cambria
county, where his brother, Nicholas, acts as superintendent of the business.
   On November 8, 1881, Doctor Evans was united in marriage with Melissa
Burley, a daughter of Jonathan Burley, of Tyrone, this county, where he was
then practicing. To this union has been born one son and a daughter. The
daughter is named Mary Boynton, and was born September 24, 1882, while the
son is Henry Simpson, and his natal day May 28, 1884.
   Doctor Evans is a republican in politics, and a member of the First
Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has served for some time as a
steward. He is also a member of Mountain Lodge, No. 281 Free and Accepted
Masons. Doctor Evans is popular, both as a physician and as a citizen, and
while attending to a large practice, at the same time takes an active
interest in all matters connected with the public welfare. He is justly held
in high esteem by a very large circle of friends and acquaintances, who
concede his ability and skill as a physician, while they admire the pluck and
energy with which he has made his way in the world in the face of many adverse
circumstances.

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