Background
Evans, Thomas was born on October 5, 1842 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Evan and Eleanor (Jones) Evans.
Evans, Thomas was born on October 5, 1842 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Evan and Eleanor (Jones) Evans.
Educational public schools, Pittsburgh.
Began as errand boy with Bakewell, Pears & Company, glass manufacturers. Organizer, 1869, of Reddick & Company, which in 1873 purchased plant of Fahnestock, Fortune & Company, then the largest lamp chimney factory in the United States. Withdrew from firm and built furnace exclusively for manufacturer of lamp chimneys.
Firm became merged, 1899, in the McBeth-Evans Glass Company, of which is treasurer.
Director Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company.
Mason.; Club: Duquesne.
Married Henrietta Salisbury, of Pittsburgh, January 7, 1875.