REV. WILLIAM EDWARD EVANS, MANKATO, BLUE EARTH COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
Born at Cefn Caer, Pennal, Merionethshire, Wales, May 5th, 1862, son of Lewis and Catherine Evans, educated at Aberystwyth College and at the Bala C. M. Theological Seminary.He then went to Edinburgh University, Scotland, for a portion of three years, but on account of failing health was obliged to leave before fully completing his course.
March 4th, 1890, he married Miss Margaret Ellen Hughes, of Bala, Wales. Emig-rated to America in the spring of 1890 and located first at Racine, then at Waukesha and then at Milwaukee.
In December, 1894, he accepted a call to the C. M. church of Mankato, Minn., and began his pastoral charge there on January 1st, 1895. He has had a religious training from his youth and began preaching at his home church when 18 years old, and at the age of 20 he was licensed by the synod. He is fast winning prominence as one of the ablest preachers in his denomination.