Evans Willson Black
1853–1932
American carpenter, geologist, and newspaper editor. A self-taught polymath. Grew up in Pennsylvania, where he took a particular interest in geology, and in 1880 moved to Nebraska, where he worked as a carpenter. Founder, in 1887, and editor of the North Loup Loyalist (a newspaper). A committed Seventh Day Baptist.
Sources
Fayette County PA Archives bibles: Black bible, selected entries from the journals of Josiah V. Thompson, contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lynn Beatty, files.usgwarchives.net/pa/fayette/bible/black01.txt (accessed 17 May 2016)
North Loup Loyalist, 26 February 1932, p. 1 (Evans Wilson Black)
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