THOMAS C. EVANS
Thomas C. Evans settled in Noble township, October 1, 1871. He had previously purchased the southeast quarter of section 25, upon which was a log house and few acres broken. He now has the land all improved, and has erected a good frame house, planted a grove, and set out a great variety of fruit trees. He now owns two hundred and ninety acres, all improved except ten acres of timber. Mr. Evans was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1833. When he was thirteen years old, his parents moved to Wisconsin, and settled in Lafayette county, where they were early settlers. His father entered land in Kendall township. Thomas E. remained with his parents until his marriage, in 1856 to Ann Maria Olmstead, a native of New York. He then bought land in Belmont township, and improved a farm. In 1859 he went to Colorado, passing through Cass county on the way. He stopped only a short time in Colorado, and went on to California, making the whole trip overland with an ox team. He remained in California until January, 1863, and then returned home. In 1866 he went to Helena, Montana, where he was employed in a quartz mill, and remained two years, after which he returned to his home. The following year he went back to Montana. He went to Salt Lake valley in the first railway passenger coach that ever entered the valley. He returned from Montana the second time in 1871, and soon after came to this county. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have six children, Frank E., Edith M., Fred. L., Maggie A., Charles N. and Jennie M.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 662.
