Rowland Evans

Lawyer; born in Chester County, Pa., July 12, 1867; son of Edmund C. Evans and Mary L. (Allen) Evans. He was educated in West Chester Academy and private schools. Mr. Evans married in Lower Merion, Pa., April 25, 1878, Mary Binney Montgomery, and they have four children: Edmund, Elizabeth (now Mrs. A.B. Roberts), Mary and Essyllt. He read law with the late George W. Biddle of Philadelphia; was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia in 1869, afterward in Montgomery, Chester and Delaware Counties and in the Supreme Court, and also in the Supreme Court of the United States, and has followed the active practice of his profession. Mr. Evans is a Democrat in politics, and an Episcopalian in religious connections; member of the Law Association of Philadelphia, State Bar Association; Pennsylvania Institution for Deaf and Dumb, Corporation for Relief of Widows of Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Society for Advancement of Christianity, and various organizations connected with the Protestant Episcopal Church, deputy to the General Convention from the Diocese of Pennsylvania, vestryman of the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, member of the Merion Cricket Club, and the Church Club of Philadelphia. His recreations are cricket, tennis, angling and walking. Residence: Lower Merion, Montgomery County. Pa., and Haverford, P.O. Business address: 225 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 245-246.

Submitted by Nancy.