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Biographies †
Source #1: 20th Century History of
Youngstown & Mahoning Co., Ohio
and Representative Citizens - Publ. Biographical Publ. Co.
Chicago, Illinois - 1907
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- History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio
By Jos. G. Butler, Jr.
Vols. I & 2
Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York 1921
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‡ Source 3 -
History of Trumbull & Mahoning Counties
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Vol I -
Publ. Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. 1882
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JOSEPH EVANS.
For many years prominently connected with the mercantile and
manufacturing affairs of this section of the country, Joseph
Evans is well qualified both by training and experience, for the
high position he is so successfully filling as manager of the
Telling-Belle Vernon Company's Youngstown Plant, which manufactures
and distributes half a million gallons of ice cream each year, using
in the distribution of this vast amount four trucks and eight teams.
This wide-awake firm has plants in Cleveland, also, and in other
near-by places, and is carrying on an enormous business, its
manufactures in the various plants aggregating 5,000,000 gallons
yearly, ice cream being in greater demand in every place, and at all
seasons of the year, than almost any other product that is not
strictly necessary to sustain human life. A son of Thomas
Evans, he was born in Youngstown in 1886, and has spent the
greater part of his life in this city.
Born and bred in Wales, Thomas Evans there
worked in the mines until reaching man's estate. Soon after
that important event he married Anna Jones, and with his
newly wed wife sailed for America. Making his way directly to Ohio,
he located in Youngstown, and was here first employed in the Brown-Bonnell
Plant, and when that business was merged into the Republic Iron &
Steel Company he remained with the new firm, and has since held
various positions of responsibility and trust, now, at the age of
sixty-eight years, being one of the firm's oldest employes in point
of service. Both he and his wife are members of the Elm Street
Congregational Church. Four children have been born of their
union, as follows: Catherine, wife of James A.
Faulkner who is with a motor company in Cleveland; Marie,
wife of Thomas H. Chambers, with the Maxwell Motor Company,
in Detroit, Michigan; Ben, manager of the Beil-Evans
Printing Company, of Youngstown; and Joseph, of whom we
write.
Acquiring a practical education in the Front Street
School, Joseph Evans began work when young, and at the age of
seventeen years held a responsible position with the W. H. Lewis
Pump Company, a part of the time serving as manager of the plant.
At the end of four years he went to Pittsburgh, and was there
employed in the offices of the Ward-Mackey Biscuit Company for a
year. Returning then to Youngstown, Mr. Evans was for
four years connected with the wall paper and carpet department of
the H. S. Williams store, a position that he resigned to
become manager of the Youngstown plant of the Telling-Belle Vernon
Company, which under his supervision is carrying on an extensive and
rapidly increasing business.
Mr. Evans married, in 1911, Marie,
daughter of William Bowstead, of Pittsburgh. Mr.
Evans is a member of the Free and Accepted Order of Masons,
belonging to the blue lodge, chapter and commandery and is a member
of Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
of Cleveland, Ohio. He is also a member of the Order of United
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