Page 10 2023 Fall Farm Outlook Lincoln Daily News Oct 2023 David Evans’ family has been in the implement business since 1953. In 1953 his grandfather and uncle John Cox and John R. Cox opened Cox Implement in Lincoln, an Allis-Chalmers dealership. In 1966 they moved the business to Lawndale to accommodate growth and in 1979 David and his father Tom bought the business. The dealership grew to include Allis-Chalmers, Steiger, Kinze, New Holland, and many other short line companies. Tom retired in 1991 and that same year David’s son Tim Evans joined the family business. The closing of the Lawndale location and merger with SchmidtMarcotte in 1992 resulted in tremendous growth of the customer service and parts departments. Michael and Steve Schmidt In 1998 Michael Schmidt graduated from Western Illinois University with an agriculture degree and joined his dad, Steve, in the business. The addition of Michael to the company marked five generations of Schmidt’s in the implement business. Continued --
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