History of Juniata County Pennsylvania United States of America

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The Biography of Henry Clay Evans

Henry Clay Evans, representative, was born in Juniata county, Pa., June 18, 1843; son of Jesse B. and Anna (Single) Evans. He attended the schools of Platteville and Lancaster, Wisconsin Territory, until March, 1859, when he became clerk in the register's office, Grant county. He enlisted as a private in the 41st Wisconsin infantry, and served in the civil war as a soldier, 1862-64. He was then stationed at Chattanooga, Tenn., as a civilian in the U.S. army, 1864-65; was agent for the secretary of war in closing up the military depot there, and in removing the Union dead from the battlefields and temporary burying grounds to the National cemeteries, 1865-67; and was engaged in building barracks in Texas, 1867-70. He returned to Chattanooga in 1870 where he served as president of the board of education; was twice mayor of the city; was a Republican representative from the 3d district of Tennessee in the 51st congress, 1889-91; was first assistant postmaster-general in the administration of President Harrison; claimed to have been elected governor of Tennessee in 1894, but was counted out by the state legislature; was delegate-at-large to the Republican national conventions at Minneapolis, 1892, and St. Louis, 1896; was narrowly defeated for the nomination for vice-president of the United States in 1896, and was appointed United States commissioner of pensions in March, 1897, by President McKinley.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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