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Thomas Evans was a descendant in the third generation of the Gwynedd group of settlers in Pennsylvania. His parents, Jonathan Evans, Jr. , and Hannah (Bacon) Evans were residents of the city of Philadelphia and their seven children, five sons and two daughters, were reared in the best traditions of the Society of Friends.
The most substantial education of the city was at this time (1812 - 16) given in the Academy at Fourth and Chestnut Streets. It was one of the Penn Charter Schools. Solomon Roberts was head master and trained his boys in advanced mathematics as well as in ancient languages, including Hebrew. Under him young Thomas acquired a student habit that was lifelong. At the age of twenty-one he established himself as a druggist.
The fifteen years (182035) embraced in his young manhood were stirring times in the Society of Friends. For the first five years of this period, he was occupied with constructive work which included a journey (1821 - 22) on religious service with an English Friend, George Withy, into Ohio and into some of the Southern states. As a climax, a crowded public meeting of a deeply impressive character was held in the Hall of the House of Representatives in Washington (Washington Gazette, Jan. 14, 1822). Thomas Evans made this record in regard to it: “The floor was literally strewed with tears, and it was one of the most remarkable meetings I had ever attended. ” In 1827 the schism in the Society of Friends culminated. From that date the two bodies were known as Hicksite and Orthodox. Ostensibly, Socinianism caused the break, but a hundred years after, the breach officially healed, one easily perceives that various unhappy circumstances were also responsible. Thomas Evans was associated with his father as an able defender of the orthodox faith but on reflection in later years he characterized the separation as the “most mournful controversy that ever divided a once united people. ” Ignorance of Quaker principles and history in Evans’s opinion had been largely responsible for the whole sorry business, and he henceforth found his life-work, apart from his service as a minister, in an industrious effort to correct this condition. In 1828 he published An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, quoting 181 Friends of the previous centuries in support of the orthodox position. The Exposition was followed many years later by A Concise Account of the Religious Society of Friends (1856), which under forty-five headings gives the doctrines and practises of the Society. In 1847 he issued a volume entitled Examples of Youthful Piety, to meet the needs of the religious training of children. With his brother William, in 1837 he entered upon the publication of The Friends’ Library (1837 - 50). This includes fourteen quarto volumes of about five hundred pages each, containing 105 articles, mostly memoirs and journals but also Penn’s well-known “No Cross, No Crown, ” and “The Institution of the Discipline, " carefully edited. In 1854 William and Thomas Evans published four volumes under the title, Piety Promoted, in a Collection of the Dying Sayings of Many of the People Called Quakers. All this work was done with meticulous care and in the dignified style of the time. It represents a permanent contribution to the history and professed faith of the followers of George Fox. He died in Philadelphia in his seventieth year, four of his five children surviving him.
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Thomas Evans was associated with his father as an able defender of the orthodox faith but on reflection in later years he characterized the separation as the “most mournful controversy that ever divided a once united people. ”
From that date the two bodies were known as Hicksite and Orthodox.
In 1828 he published An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, quoting 181 Friends of the previous centuries in support of the orthodox position.
Quotations: A crowded public meeting of a deeply impressive character was held in the Hall of the House of Representatives in Washington (Washington Gazette, Jan. 14, 1822). Thomas Evans made this record in regard to it: “The floor was literally strewed with tears, and it was one of the most remarkable meetings I had ever attended. ”
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He married Catharine Wistar of Germantown in 1834.
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For the first five years of this period, he was occupied with constructive work which included a journey (1821 - 22) on religious service with an English Friend, George Withy, into Ohio and into some of the Southern states.
