Welsh Journals

shaved and cleaned up. I was feeling better every minute. Then I went out doors and looked at God's sunlight and I felt that the world was mine. I went to the studio. Mr. Sauvage, I've changed my mind. I'm going to stay', I said. Good said the teacher. I've got an opening for you. They need a singer at a Brooklyn church and will give you a trial He got the job at$800 a year. The worst period of the struggle was over. A little while later he got another church at$2,000 for 40 weeks. That seemed vast wealth to him. Then the lyceum bureau people sent him out on concerts and after that talking machines came along. He sang for the records, then went to London and sang for a com- pany there. He was mighty proud of the$100 a record he made in this. Again Akron friends advised him, for Evan Williams was a generous, not a business man. They told him he should make records only on a royalty basis. So he did and at the time of his death on May 24, 1918, his royalties from the records amounted to$35,000 a year and his concert engagements were bringing him in an additional$35,000 a year. His earnings were ex- ceeded probably by only two other tenors, Caruso and McCormack, and by no other American. He had no equal as a singer of oratorios, having taken part in all the great music festivals in America. The name Evan Williams on a programme always meant a crowded house. As a singer of Welsh songs he had no equal and he was the idol of the Welsh people all over America, singing at Welsh concerts and eisteddfods. His Welsh records are many and increasing in popularity as the years roll on. Williams always felt that Akron was his home and built a$100,000 residence on Mayfield Road. About 1908 he was chosen head of the Tuesday Musical Club and the same year he organized a successful Eisteddfod. He was one of the men who made Akron world famous. (Cambrian, June 1, 1918, from the Akron Beacon Journal; Who's who in America; Personal knowledge and recollections.) JONES, JENKIN LLOYD, (1843-1918), unitarian divine of Chicago, born at Blaen- cathal, near Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, on Nov. 14, 1843, and the seventh- of ten children of Richard Lloyd and his wife Mary of the same place. His parents and family emigrated to America, arriving in New York on Jenkin's first birthday on Nov. 14, 1844. After a little wandering the family moved to the wilds of Wisconsin, and located at the Welsh settlement of Ixonia, thus becoming one of the earliest settlers at this place. From here they moved to the Welsh settlement of Spring Green, Wisconsin. Jenkin worked on the farm in the summer and attended school in the winter until the Civil War broke out. In 1862 he enlisted in the sixth Wisconsin battery, and saw active service as a private clear through the war in the army of the Tennessee under Generals Grant, Sherman, McPherson, Logan and others, in the battles of Corinth, Raymond, Champion Hills, Jackson, the sieges of Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Nashville, and other campaigns. During his service he kept a diary, which filled ten little memorandum books The contents of these little books was published by the state of Wisconsin, in a handsomely illustrated volume in 1914, entitled An Artilleryman's Diary He concludes his preface by saying a great thing was done for humanity in America between 1861 and 1865 But Oh it was such a wrong way of doing the right thing'. On his return home after the war, he worked on the farm, and in winter kept a school, teaching ninety children, ranging from the little child learning its A.B.C. to the student in Algebra and Geometry. He graduated in 1870, from the Mead- ville, Pennsylvania, theological seminary, after a four year course. He attained his LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1909. Married Susan C. Barber of Meadville, Penn- I Read sixth. See Author's preface to An Artilleryman's Diary. Wisconsin, 1914, p. xii. — Editor.