Boyle, and is conducted by Michael P. Boyle under the name of Boyle's Hotel. He has been very successful in its management and it is now one of the best establishments of the kind in Johnstown. In the sphere of politics Mr. Boyle is a stanch Democrat, the men and measures advocated and endorsed by the organization always finding in him an uncompromising supporter. He is a member of St. Columba's church.
Mr. Boyle married, in 1894, in Johnstown, Margaret Dowling, of that city and they are the parents of the following children: Charles Joseph; Walter Vincent; and Mary Catharine.
HON. ALVIN EVANS, deceased, of Ebensburg, of whom, orator though he was, it has been justly said that "the most eloquent speech he made was the life he lived," was of Welsh ancestry.
His grandfather, John Evans, was a native of Cardiganshire, Wales, and was by trade a carpenter. In 1832 he emigrated to the United States, settling in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and making his home in Cambria township, where he followed his trade in connection with farming. About 1847 he purchased property in Ebensburg, where he passed the residue of his days. He was for some time engaged in manufacturing lumber by the old-time whip-saw process. His creed was that of the Congregational church. He married Elizabeth Jones, also a native of Cardiganshire. and they were the parents of a large family, including a son, David J., father of Alvin Evans.
David J. Evans, son of John and Elizabeth (Jones) Evans, was born October 24, 1813, in Cardiganshire, and learned the tailor's trade, which he followed in South Wales. He accompanied his parents to this country and settled at Munster, Cambria county, working as a journeyman tailor. Later he worked at his trade in Pittsburg and various other places. In 1836 he took up his abode in Ebensburg, where he established himself in business as a tailor. In 1863 he enlisted in Company E, of the battalion of emergency men. He filled a number of local offices, and in politics was first an old-line Whig and later a Republican. In religious belief he was a Congregationalist. David J. Evans, married, 1838, Jane Ann, born in Wales, daughter of David W. Jones, and brought by her parents to Cambria county in 1836. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Evans, of whom the fifth was Alvin, mentioned later. The mother of the family died at Ebensburg, in 1852, and the death of Mr. Evans, the father, occurred in the same place, October 20, 1890.
Alvin Evans, fifth child of David J. and Jane Ann (Jones) Evans, was born October 4, 1845, and received his preparatory education in the public schools, afterward taking a three months' course at the Iron City Business College, Pittsburg. In the memorable financial crash of 1857 his father failed in business, in consequence of which Alvin was thrown upon his own resources at the early age of sixteen. Until his twenty-third year he was employed in lumbering and in a novelty works in his native county. Having met with an accident while engaged in the lumber business, and realizing that he could no longer gain a livelihood by manual labor, in 1870 he entered the law office of the late George M. Reade, of Ebensburg, and in 1873 was admitted to the bar. Immediately thereafter he opened an office in his native town, where he continued in practice until the close of his life. He acquired a large, remunerative clientage and practiced in the supreme and superior courts of the state, also engaging in the trial of causes in the United States circuit court. For more than a dozen years he was solicitor for the Pennsylvania Rail-
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