EVANS, Edwin K. 1859-1936

EVANS, LEQUE, JOEHNKE, FOLKESTAD, GRINDE

Posted By: Diane Scott (email)
Date: 10/13/2010 at 16:19:34

Edwin Kittleson Evans

July 10, 1859 – October 1936
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E. K. Evans

EVANS FUNERAL HELD AT OSAGE

Held Interest in Several
Clothing Stores;
Wife, Daughter Left

OSAGE, IOWA – Funeral services were held here Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Osage Lutheran Church in charge of the Rev. H. M Solem for E. K. Evans, 77, who died here at his home after a long illness.

Born in Columbia County, Wisconsin in 1859, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kittle Evans, he spent his boyhood in Minnesota. In 1888 Mr. Evans purchased an interest in the Leuthold clothing store at Kasson, Minn. In 1891 he and Mr. Leuthold established a clothing store here under the name of Leuthold and Evans.

Later Mr. Evans bought an interest in five other clothing stores at Greene, Northwood, Menominee, Wis., Albert Lea, Minn., and Cherokee. Twelve years ago Mr. Evans disposed of his interest in the clothing store here to George Cummings. Mr. Evans owned many farms and other real estate in Iowa and Minnesota.

In 1889 he was married to Ida Leque, who survives him along with an adopted daughter, Mrs. Edwin Joehnke of Centerville. He was a member of the Osage Lutheran church, the Masonic Blue Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, and the Couer de Leon Commander of Osage and the Mystic Shrine, Eli Kahir temple of Cedar Rapids.

Burial was in the Osage Cemetery.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Friday October 9, 1936
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E.K. Evens Died
Tuesday Night
In Osage Home

Was a Clothier in Osage for
Many Years -- Had been
Ailing for Years.

Edward K. Evens, for forty years an important figure in the affairs of Osage and Mitchell county, died Tuesday night at his home on west Chase street, Osage. He had been in poor health for several years, and for the past year had been a partial invalid.

BORN IN WISCONSIN, 1859

He was born in Columbia, county, Wisconsin, in 1859, the son of Kittle Evens, a native of Norway. He spent his boyhood in Minnesota.

Mr. Evens first worked in a clothing store at Kasson, Minnesota, as an employee of Jacob Leuthold. In 1888 he purchased an interest in that business, remaining there until 1891, when he came to Osage and established a store with Mr. Leuthold as a partner. In 1899, Mr. Evens established a store at Greene under the name of Evens, Blumer & Co. In 1905 he established a men's clothing store at Northwood, which was conducted under the name of Evens, Johnson & Co. In 1913 a fourth store was started at Menomonie, Wisconsin, Evens, Tobin & Co. During late years he disposed of all his store interests.

He was also interested in farming and owned farm property in Minnesota and in Mitchell county, besides considerable other real estate. The Osage store was purchased twelve years ago by Jacob Leuthold Jr., George Cummings and Roy Sexe.

In 1889 he married Ida Leqve, who survives him, with one adopted daughter, Mrs. Edwin, Joehnke, of Centerville.

He was a member of the Osage Lutheran Church for many years. He was a member of the Masonic Blue lodge, the Royal Arch chapter, and the Coeur de Leon Commandery in Osage, and of the Mystic Shrine, El Kahir temple, Cedar Rapids.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, conducted by the Rev. H. Solem at the Osage Lutheran Church, with burial in the Osage cemetery.

MITCHELL COUNTY PRESS - 8 OCT 1936
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NOTES:

The Osage City Cemetery listing on IaGenWeb/Mitchell shows him as:

EVERS, EDWIN K. (died/buried) 10 OCT 1936 (loc)1191 2 63

Ancestry.com had his parents' names as:
Kittle Evenson Folkestad and Kari Larsdatter Grinde.

One source said his middle name was "Kittleson", but this may be incorrect.
It might be just "Kittle" (like his father's given name), or "Klyde" -- who knows? [kk]