Evans, Sterling C., 1899-

Sterling C. Evans (1899- 2001) banker, rancher, and namesake of Texas A & M University 's Sterling C. Evans Library, was born in Devine, Tex . 5 August 1899, the third child of the four children of John Henry Evans and Emily Evaline Crutchfield Evans . The elder Evans arrived in Texas from Burnt Corn, Ala . as a teenaged migrant farm worker. In succeeding years, he married and purchased a farm in Devine, Tex . When he sold the farm in Devine, the family moved to Melon, Tex ., where the four Evans children rode a horse to a one-room school. So that he could attend high school, Sterling C. Evans moved in with a family friend in Uvalde, Tex . and eventually graduated president of the class of 1917. After visiting with a friend at Texas A & M University, Evans was so impressed by the school that he enrolled himself. Evans graduated from Texas A & M University in 1921 with a degree in Animal Husbandry . It was during his tenure at Texas A & M University that Sterling C. Evans developed his life-long love for livestock, literature and the Texas A & M University itself.

During his undergraduate years at Texas A & M, Evans became the school's leading student in livestock judging-a skill he maintained and would use the rest of his life in discriminating keepers from culls among the Santa Gertrudis cattle and Quarter Horses he raised on his ranches.

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