American Civil War In 1862, Alvin Evans enlisted with a volunteer military unit, which was mobilized in response to the potential invasion of
Pennsylvania by the
Confederate States Army during the
American Civil War.
Legal and political career After beginning legal studies with George M. Reade of Ebensburg in 1870, he was admitted to the bar in 1873. He then established a law practice in Ebensburg, and later advocated for clients in the
Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, as well as in federal court. A one-term burgess for the borough of Ebensburg, he also worked as solicitor for the
Pennsylvania Railroad in
Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and was a member of the school board and city council of Ebensburg. Involved in the incorporation of the First National Bank of Ebensburg, he was later appointed as president of that bank's board of directors. Elected as a
Republican to the
Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, he did not seek renomination in
1904, but instead returned to the practice of law. A member of the board of trustees of the First Congregational Church of Ebensburg, he was also active in the
Grand Army of the Republic's Captain John M. Jones Post and the
Free and Accepted Masons' Summit Lodge, No. 312. == Personal life ==