Genealogical Records: Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600-1800s
Colonial & Revolutionary Families, Vol II, Powell Evans, P 778
Powell Evans, eldest son and second child of Dr James and Maria Antionette(Powell) Evans was born at Little rock, Marion Co., SC, June 1, 1868. He graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, New York, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1888, member of Phi Beta Kappa, Literary and Social Fraternities, and engaged in business as a civil and electrical engineer, which he contnues to the present time. He is president and manager of the Merchant & Evans Company of Philadelphia, manufacturers of tinplate, and other metal in all lines, and is also president of the International Sprinkler Co. He is much interested in street, passenger and other railways, automobile and good roads work, as well as in fire protection engineering. He is a director of the Merchants' National Bank of Philadelphia, and a member of the University, Racquet and Philadelphia Country Clubs and of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution. He married, Nov 26, 1898, Julia Estelle Merchant, daughter of Clark Merchant, Esq. of Philadelphia and his wife Sarah Watts, and grandaughter of General Merchant, first cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, from Albany New York and a distinguished officer of the United States Army, by his wife, a Miss Lovekin, of Newburyport, MA.