Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Alban Taylor EAVENSON
Philadelphia Press,
June 27 1910
"ALBEN T. EAVENSON, AGED FRIEND, DIES "
Retired Manufacturer Noted For His Work along Philantrophic Lines.
Alben Taylor Eavenson, a retired manufacturer, died at his Philadelphia residence, 2013 Vine St., early yesterday morning. Mr. Eavenson who throughout his life had been identified with Philantrophic work in the Society of Friends, was born on December 16, 1826 near West Chester on a tract of land granted his ancestor Ralph Eavenson in 1646.
From 1858 until 1908 Mr. Eavenson was senior member of the firm J. Eavenson and Sons, soap manufacturer, since which time he has devoted all his efforts to public and private philantrophic work of various kinds. He was an elder in the Race Street Monthly Meeting of Friends. He was a member of the Board of Managers and President of the Friends Home for Children at Fortieth and Aspen Streets, a steward of the Grandom Trust, which dispenses coal among the poor, a director in the Friends' Charity Fuel Association and treasurer of the Quaker City Division of the Sons of Temperance and at one time president of the Fifteenth Ward Organized Charities.
Mr. Eavenson is survived by the following children: Francis Valentine Eavenson, Miss Ida Caroline Eavenson, Mrs. J. Howard Way, St. David's; Mrs. H. Taylor Rogers, Asheville, NC; Lewis Lincoln Eavenson, Masonville, NJ; Alban Eavenson, Oak Lane; Mrs. William McH. Boyer, Reading; Miss Irene Eavenson, and Howard Nicholas Eavenson, Gary, W. Va.
The funeral will be held on Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Friends' Meeting House at Fifteenth and Race Streets.
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