P. H. BEVINS

BEVINS

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 14:01:20

P. H. BEVINS, Treasurer of Adams county, was born in Warren county, New York, in 1840. His father, Alva Bevins, a native of Vermont, was a lumber merchant and came to Iowa in the early ’50s, and was killed in the army when a member of Company E, Hinth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, at Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Mr. Bevins, of this sketch, grew up to manhood in New York,completing his education at McGregor Academy. After following the milling business in Illinois until 1870, he came to Corning and entered the mercantile trade. Was for a long period postmaster at this point, and then in 1882 resumed business as a flour and feed merchant. In November, 1889, he was elected on the Democratic ticket as County Treasurer, and the duties of this office he is now fulfilling with entire satisfaction to the public.