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Lyman Evans
Taylor County
Attorney at law, Bedford, Iowa, a native of the Hawkeye State, born in DeWitt, Clinton county, September 1, 1847, where he remained until sixteen years of age. He then entered the State University at Iowa City. Attended college two years and then commenced the study of law with Judge Palley, of Detroit, with who he remained for three years. He was admitted to the bar in Clinton County in 1870, and was at once chosen to the position of assistant superintendent of the Orphans' Home at Cedar Falls. He came to Bedford in 1872 and commenced the practice of his profession. On Christmas Day, 1872, Miss Mary A. Wallace, of Monmouth, Illinois, became his bride. She is a native of the Buckeye State. Mr. Evans represented Taylor County in the Nineteenth Iowa General Assembly, 1882. He has been eminently successful in his practice; has, by strict integrity and attention to business, gained not only an enviable reputation as a lawyer, but the entire confidence of the people, and will, doubtless, if there be no preventing misfortune, become one of the leading lights of the Iowa bar.
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