Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Everard, Richard – Everhart, James Marion

Everard, Richard

governor, was born in England. He was governor of North Carolina during 1725-29. He died Feb. 17, 1733, in London, England.

Everest, Charles W

clergyman, educator, poet, was born May 27, 1814, in East Windsor, Conn. He was a successful clergyman and educator; and for many years had charge of the Rectory School of Hamden, Conn. His poems have been a valuable acquisition to American literature.

Everest, Harvey William

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1831 in New York. He is a clergyman and educator of the Christian denomination; and the author of The Divine Demonstration; and a Text-Book of Christian Evidence.

Everett, Charles Carroll

clergyman, author, was born in June, 1829, in Brunswick, Maine. He is a unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the theological faculty of Harvard university from 1878, and a profound and independent philosophical thinker. He is the author of The Science of Thought; Religions before Christianity; Fichte's Science of Knowledge, a Critical Exposition; Poetry, Comedy, and Duty; Ethics for Young People; and The Gospel of Paul.

Everett, David

journalist, author, was born March, 29, 1770, in Princeton, Mass. He was a Boston journalist; and the author of Common Sense in Déshabillé, or the Farmer's Monitor; and Daranzel, or the Persian Poet, a tragedy. He died Dec. 21, 1813, in Marietta, Ohio.

Everett, Erastus

educator, author, poet, was born in 1813 in Princeton, Mass. He is an educator once prominent in Brooklyn; and the author of System of English Versification; and Progress, a poem.

Everett, Horace

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1780 in Vermont. He was state's attorney for Windsor county from 1813 to 1817; and served in the state legislature in 1819-24, and in 1834. He was a prominent member of the state constitutional convention of 1828; and was a representative in congress from 1829 to 1843. He died Jan. 30, 1851, in Windsor, Vt.

Everett, John

author, was born Feb. 22, 1801, in Dorchester, Mass. His poetical abilities were considerable, as is shown by his Ode to St. Paul's Church, and by one written for the Washington society, and sung at Concert hall, July 4, 1825. He is the author of articles in the North American Review. He died in 1826 in Boston, Mass.

Everett, Robert William

soldier, congressman, was born March 3, 1839, in Hayneville, Ga. He entered the confederate army, and served until the close of the war. He served two years as commissioner of revenue; served twelve years on the board of education, the last four as president of the board; and served four years, from 1882 to 1885, as a member of the general assembly of Georgia. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Everhart, Isaiah Fawkes

physician, naturalist, was born Jan. 22, 1840, in Berks county, Pa. He served in the civil war as a surgeon, and was promoted to the rank of major. He served as a member of the medical staff of the Lackawanna hospital; a member of the Scranton board of health, and surgeon of the ninth regiment of militia.

Everhart, James Bowen

lawyer, state senator, congressman, author, poet, was born July 26, 1821, in West Chester, Pa.

In 1876 he was elected a state senator, and wasre-elected in 1880. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress. He is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Poems; and The Fox Chase.

Everhart, James Marion

manufacturer, inventor, was born June 7, 1828, in Berks county, Pa. In 1874 he gained entire control of the Scranton Brass works, and has introduced many improvements and inventions; and has been president of two coal companies. sur- EVERHART, JOHN ROSKELL, geon, author, was born in 1828 in West Chester, Pa. He served in the civil war, retiring with the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. He has traveled extensively, and in 1892 published By Road and Rail.

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