Biographical Details
Date of Birth: December 25, 1818
Birth Location: Pulaski County, KY, USA
Major Study: Law
Graduation Year(s): 1848
Degree(s) Earned: Bachelor of Laws
Date of Death: March 11, 1893
Death Location: Leavenworth, KS, USA
Andrew Henderson Evans
Life Experience
Andrew Henderson Evans was born on Christmas Day in 1818. He entered the newly established Indiana College (now IU) from Spencer, Indiana, at age twelve. He was listed in the first college catalogue of the university in 1831. He left the university without any record of having graduated. He was still in Spencer in 1841 (serving on the Indiana State Board of Revenue), but he moved soon after to Delphi, Indiana. He eventually returned to IU to obtain his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1848. He made his living as an attorney.
During the Civil War, Evans enlisted in the Union Army at age forty-two. He became second lieutenant of Company K, 2nd Regiment Indiana Cavalry. He resided in Terre Haute in 1867 and in Indianapolis in 1870. In 1873, he was an attorney for the International Merchants’ Protective Law Association. He was still listed as being in Indianapolis in 1885 but he died eight years later in Kansas in 1893.
Marriage and Family
In 1840, Evans married Nancy Owen.
References
- Wylie
- Findagrave.com
- ancestry.com/search/collections/ (U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938)
- archive.org/stream/cu31924092911126/
- civilwarindex.com/armyin/officers/
- wikitree.com/wiki/
- Bloomington Post 10/12/1838
- The Wabash Courier 03/06/1841
- Weekly Wabash Express 02/27/1867
- Indianapolis News 10/31/1870
- Kneeland, S. F. (1873) Commercial Manual of the International Merchants’ Protective Law Association (Albany, NY: Law Book and Law Blank Publishers)
- Indiana University (1875)
- Indianapolis News 07/22/1885
- History of Cass County (1886)