Biography

03/24/1832 - 07/08/1899

EVANS, Nathan Cromwell, a Representative from Bedford County; born, March 24, 1832 in Southampton Township, Bedford County, Pa.; attended, Allegheny Seminary; second lieutenant, Company D, 101st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); captain, Company A, 184th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865; prisoner of war, 1864-1865); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Rainsburg, Armstrong County, Pa. (1858-1861, 1869-1872); engaged, mercantile business; elected, justice of the peace, Everett (1879-1880); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1887 and 1889 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1890); died, July 8, 1899 in Everett, Bedford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Everett Cemetery, Everett, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.