Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1 pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919 [page 183-185] EDWARD WALTER EVANS, an expert miller now engaged in the flour and feed business in Alma, Buffalo county, was born in Shropshire, England, Sept. 16, 1854, son of EDWARD and JANE ELIZABETH (POWELL) EVANS. The father, EDWARD, was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, and the mother in Monmouthshire, England, and neither ever left the British isles. EDWARD WALTER, who was the second born of their six children, in his boyhood attained a private school and also a Church of England school, but his studies were not long pursued, as at the age of twelve years be began to learn the trade of flour miller under his father, subsequently completing his apprenticeship in other mills. In 1871 he set out for the United States, and locating in Milwaukee, worked in the shop of A. P. Allis Company, making mill stones. He continued at this work, however, but six weeks, at the end of that time obtaining employment in the Eagle Mill, where he remained for nine and a half years. After that he went to Racine and from there to Stoughton, working in the latter place for a few months. In 1882 he was sent by Noy & Co. to start a mill at Gilmanton, Buffalo county, and was located there for two years. His next employment was in a mill at Eau Claire, where also he remained two years, at the end of that time going to Madison Leke, S.D., where he started a mill. A year and a half later he returned to Buffalo county and founded the Alma mill, of which he had charge for eleven years until it burned down in 1899. Since then he has been engaged in the flour and feed business in Alma, and for two years bought wheat for the Minnesota Elevator Co. of Winona. MR. EVANS was married May 27, 1884, to TINA RUSSELL MORE, of Cross Township, Buffalo County, who was born in Waukesha County, Wis- consin, March 12, 1855, daughter of JOHN and JANET (BROWNLIE) MORE, and who came to Buffalo County in a covered wagon, with her parents, when a babe. Of this union six children have been born; ROBERT MORE, ALICE JEAN, RUSSELL ARGYLE, WALLACE, JESSIE MARIAN, and GEORGE DONALD. ROBERT MORE, who graduated from the Alma high school, is now a hardware merchant at Wimbledon, N.D. ALICE JEAN is a graduate of the Alma high school, the Buffalo County Training School, and the Winona State Normal School, and was also a student for one year at the Wisconsin State Univer- sity at Madison. With the fine mental equipment thus obtained, she taught school successfully until her marriage to HERBERT L. WOOLHISER, of Chicago, in which city she is now residing. RUSSELL ARGYLE, after graduating from the Alma high school en- tered the Wisconson State University and was graduated with honors with the class of 1912. He became a proficient teacher and is now connected with the educational work of the Young Men's Christian Association at the Great Lakes Training Camp. He is a member of the college fraternity known as Phi Beta Kappa. WALLACE graduated from the Alma high school and the Wisconsin Business University at La Crosse, after which he became assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Alma. He is now in the Aviation Corps in the United States service abroad. JESSIE MARIAN graduated from the Alma high school and subsequently in letters and science from the State University at Madison. GEORGE DONALD also graduated from the Alma high school and is now a student of the State University at Madi- son in the army training corps of the same institution. it will thus be seen that all MR. EVANS' children have received a good education and are creditably occupying useful spheres of activity, chiefly patriotic. JOHN and JANET (BROWNLIE) MORE, the parents of MRS. EVANS, were both born in Scotland, where they were also married, coming to the United States in 1849. After landing at New York from a sailing vessel, they came west, chiefly by way of the Great Lakes, to Milwaukee, and thence to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where they remained until 1855, when they came to Buffalo County, being among the earlies Scotch set- tlers to locate on Buffalo Ridge, Cross Township. Their sub- sequent experiences for a number of years were tinged with the hardships common to pioneer life in a frontier community. Their white neighbors were few and far between, though the often undesirable Indian was daily to be seen and was not an unfrequent visitor at the log cabin, usually in the character of a mendicant. Then the land was wild and had to be cleared and broken and it was years before their farm assumed a civi- lized appearance, with well tilled acres and adequate build- ings. Food also was often scarce, though wild game could generally be procured. Still it was easy to tire of venison and bear's meat, and there was many a time when Mr. and Mrs. MORE would have given a large piece of either for a good slice of wheat bread. But in spite of hardships they made gradual progress and in time had all the necessities and not a few comforts, not to say luxuries. After residing on their farm until 1897, they retired and took up their resi- dence in Winona, where MR. MORE died in 1907. MRS. MORE is still living and makes her home with her children. ===========================================================================