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Born on May 13, 1833 in Muskingum County, Ohio and died February 13, 1912. He came to the Ames area in 1860. His brother, Walter Evans, came to Story County one year later. Walter and Milton's younger sister, Rebecca, came to Ames with her husband, Benjamin Franklin Adams, and seven children in the spring of 1869. This was the first Adams family in Ames. Milton married Eliza Brown (born 1833) and had quite a large family of six children. Sometime after Ames was founded the brothers Milton and Walter built the elevator at the east end of downtown Ames, just north of the Chicago and North Western tracks. It was named the M. & W. Evans Elevator. Milton built himself a brick house on South Duff and represented the Ames area in the Iowa Legislature in 1876.
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