Gwynne Evans

Gwynne Evans (September 3, 1880 – January 12, 1965), an American track athlete, competition swimmer and water-polo player, represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in his native St. Louis, capturing two bronze medals, one in the 4x50 freestyle relay, and one in water polo. He later served as President of St. Louis's David G. Evans Coffee Company from 1917 to 1946, a business passed to him after the death of his father.

Evans was born September 3, 1900, in St. Louis, the second of three brothers to father David Gwynne Evans and mother Julia Durkee Evans. He attended Smith Academy, a boy's school founded in 1854, where he held the school record in the Pole Vault. His older brother Dwight was a resident of Milton, Massachusetts, and a 1901 Harvard graduate who participated in crew and hockey. Dwight worked 20 years for the Dwinnel Wright Company, a tea buyer. His younger brother Raymond died of diphtheria at age six in 1893. Gwynne grew up on 2648 Locust Street in midtown St. Louis on the same street as the original location of the Dwight Evans Coffee Company. His South Wales-born father David G. Evans, who first came to St. Louis in 1858 from Milwaukee, started the Flint-Evans Company, a successful partnership that served as a coffee roaster, packager, and distributor in St. Louis. By 1904, Evans owned a ranch in Wyoming, though he remained a St. Louis resident. Provided by Wikipedia