Joseph W. Evans Collection Bulk, 1919-1951 1912-1962

Houston Ship Channel (Tex.)

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Evans and Company

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Evans, Emily Scott

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Evans, Joseph W.

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Joseph W. Evans and his wife Emily (nee Scott) owned the Evans & Company cotton buyers and exporters which was organized in 1908. Evans & Company was a major business in Houston throughout the early 20th century and was located in the eminent Houston Cotton Exchange Building. As president of the Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade, Mr. Evans worked to establish the Port of Houston's Houston Ship Channel as a main thoroughfare for cotton producers. His work...

Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade

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From its earliest years, Houston served as a collection, marketing, and transshipment center for cotton grown in the hinterland around it. In 1874 a group of the city's businessmen decided that the volume of cotton traffic passing through Houston, as well as the increasing complexity of trading it on a rational and uniform basis, required the establishment of a central, regulatory exchange. That year the Board of Trade and Cotton Exchange--later renamed the Houston Cotton Exchange a...

Evans & Company

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Port of Houston Authority

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