Bios: JOSEPH P. EVANS, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      JOSEPH P. EVANS,
  
  [p. 762] a prosperous farmer of North Beaver Township, Lawrence County,
  Pennsylvania, has a valuable farm of 150 acres located two miles west of
  Mahoningtown, on the Covert and Cleland Mill road, just north of
  Pleasant Hill schoolhouse. He has been a life-long resident of the
  county, having been born in New Castle February 12, 1859, and is a son
  of Joshua and Catherine (Sterling) Evans.
  
  Joshua EvansJoshua Evans was born in Freetown, Bristol County Mass., and
  was a son of Joseph P. Evans, also a native of Massachusetts, who was
  killed by the falling of a tree three weeks before the birth of his son,
  Joshua. At an early age the latter learned the trade of an ironworker,
  which he followed in his native state and later at Harrisburg, Pa. While
  still in his teens he came to New Castle, Pa., but after a short time
  went west to Indiana. He soon returned to New Castle, where he was
  thereafter employed as an ironworker for many years. He owned various
  farms about the city at different times, his first purchase being on
  Washington Street, New Castle. He purchased the farm which corners on
  the farm on which our subject now lives several years prior to the
  latter's birth, and moved upon it in March, 1859, driving back and forth
  to his work each day. He died on the home farm in 1902, and was survived
  by the mother of our subject, who died on November 5, 1907. They had two
  children, Joseph P. and Margaret. He also had two children by an early
  marriage, one of whom died in boyhood; the other, B. B. Evans, now
  resides in Kansas.
  
  Joseph P. Evans was ten years old when his parents came upon the present
  farm and he was here reared to maturity, receiving his educational
  training in the common schools. He has always engaged in agricultural
  pursuits and, farming along modern and up-to-date methods, has made an
  unqualified success of his work. Fraternally, he is a member of the
  Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Lawrence Encampment, to which his
  father also belonged, the latter being at the time of his death the
  oldest Odd Fellow in Lawrence County.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 18 Dec 2001