Biography

06/16/1861 - 09/18/1948

EVANS, Samuel J., a Representative from Lehigh County; born in Beaver Meadow, Carbon County, Pa., June 16, 1861; boilermaker, Heilman Boiler Works (1881-1887); boilermaker, Pennsylvania Steel Company (1887-1889); proprietor, Slatington Foundry Machine and Boiler Works (1899); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Slatington (1907-1915); elected, council, Slatington; member, Lehigh County Republican Committee; member, Republican State Committee; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1919 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1921 term; died, September 18, 1948 in Slatington, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Cemetery, Slatington, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.