Thomas Jenkin Evans, was born Oct. 31, 1820, in Merthyr Lydwill Glam Morganshire, South Wales. He came to America in 1847, locating first in Columbia County, Pa. He was an ironworker, a roller by trade, and worked at Danville and in Philadelphia. Coming to Allentown in 1863, he lived there the greater part of his life. In 1865 he with his sons worked for the East Penn rolling mill at Ferndale, now Fullerton. He and family were members of the Presbyterian Church, He died February 21, 1874, while on a visit to his son at Lancaster. He was one of the first rollers in the Lewis Mill at Allentown. Five of his sons followed the same occupation.

He was married to Margaret Jones, a native of Beconshire, South Wales. She died April 20, 1869. They were the parents of the following children: (i) David, who died Oct., 1911, at Holly Beach, N. J., a roller by trade; (2) William J.; (3) Thomas, of Salisbury; (4) Sarah Ann, wife of John Evans; (5) John; (6) Jenkins, of Lebanon, Pa.; (7) Margaret, wife of William Eynon, of Philadelphia, whose father David Eynon started the Catasauqua rolling mills; (8) Mary, wife of Irvin Bearer, of Philadelphia; John, married to Laurancy Wem, of Massilon, Ohio, now living at Reading, where he is employed by the American Iron and Steel Co.