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Thomas Everson, foreman of the shops of the ‘Frisco branch of the Salem & Little Rock Railroad, was born at Carlisle, Penn., in 1833, and is a son of George R. and Sarah A. Everson, natives of Pennsylvania, and of English and German descent, respectively. After their marriage the parents settled in Carlisle, where the father engaged in carpentering; they are now residents of Altoona, Penn., and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the family of nine children, five sons and four daughters, Thomas is the eldest. One son, Charles, is a machinist, and George R. was killed at the battle of South Mountain during the late war. Thomas Everson received a very limited education, and when young began working at the carpenter's trade, at which he continued until seventeen years of age, when he learned the trade of a machinist in the shops at Cincinnati, Ohio; he then returned to Altoona, Penn., and for the following eight years worked in the shops of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. He then went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and in 1875 was called to his present position. In 1855 he married Emma Jacobs, a native of Pennsylvania, and of their ten children only four are living. Mr. Everson is a Republican in politics, a Mason and a member of the A. O. U. W., and Select Knights, also belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.