Harry Carroll Evans

Background

Evans, Harry Carroll was born on July 14, 1858 in Bloomfield, Iowa, United States. Son of Joseph Vance and Nancy Ellen (Childers) Evans.

Education

Student Southern Iowa Normal School, Bloomfield. Doctor of Laws, Columbian (now George Washington University, 1896.

Career

Of General James B. Weaver, August 12, 1890. Children—Alice (Mistress M. T. Dannreuther), Clara (Mistress R. H. Gallaher). Began newspaper work at Bloomfield, 1882.

Postmaster, Bloomfield, 1885-1889.

Chief of division, United States Treasury Department, 1893-1897. Editor Bloomfield Democrat, 1883-1891.

Supreme officer Brotherhood of America Yeoman and editor Yeoman Shield, since 1901. War correspondent, Germany, 1916, France and Italy, 1918.

Young Men's Christian Association service in France, 1917-1918.

Director same, Italy, 1918-1919.

Achievements

• Harry Carroll Evans has been listed as a noteworthy editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Board of Education, Des Moines, Iowa, 1919-1926 (president 1926). Member Federal Commission to study methods of caring for indigent poor in Europe, 1927. Democratic candidate for Congress, 1916-1918.

Chairman commission on conservation of child life, National Fraternal Congress, 1922-1927.

Connections

Married Susan, daughter. Children: Alice (Mistress M. T. Dannreuther), Clara (Mistress R. H. Gallaher).

Father:

Joseph Vance Evans

Mother:

Nancy Ellen (Childers) Evans

Spouse:

Susan

child:

Alice Evans (Mistress M. T. Dannreuther)

child:

Clara Evans (Mistress R. H. Gallaher)