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Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)

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Place of Birth: Clarks, Nebraska, United States

Date of Birth: March 31, 1972

Ethnicity:
* unknown (father)
* English, with smaller amounts of Cornish, French, Irish, Scottish and Welsh (maternal grandfather)
* Danish, Swedish (maternal grandmother)

Evan Williams is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. He is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter. He is the son of Laurie Jo (Howe) and Monte Billy Williams. He is married to Sara Morishige.

Evan’s maternal grandfather was Orlando Whiting Howe (the son of George Whiting Howe and Josephine Evalina Dodge). George was the son of Clarence Melville Howe and Phebe Exene Stanard. Josephine was the daughter of Peter Edwards, later Orlando A. Dodge, and Olive Anna Pickett.

Evan’s maternal grandmother was Helen Bernice Christensen (the daughter of Henry Christensen and Nellie Andrews). Henry was the son of Danish immigrants John Christensen and Stine Kirstine “Christine” Andersen. Nellie was the daughter of Swedish immigrants Johan Andersson, later John Andrews, and Alma Sophia Snell.

Sources: Genealogy of Evan Williams (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/evan-clark-williams_158762916

Evan’s maternal grandmother, Helen Bernice Christensen, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X388-7LM

Birth record of Evan’s maternal great-grandfather, Henry Christensen – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDQB-6XH

Birth record of Evan’s maternal great-grandmother, Nellie Andrews – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V22L-2J9

Evan’s maternal great-grandmother, Nellie Andrews, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9S1-F4D


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