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386 lege, Ga., in 1826, and studied in tlie office of Dr. Charles D. Meigs and in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1828. He then studied three years in London and Paris, and served as ambulance sur- geon during the revolution of 1830, and as a regi- mental surgeon in the Polisli war. He returned to the United States in November, 1831. and the fol- lowing June was elected professor of surgery in the newly organized Medical college of Georgia. He remained there until 1849, when he succeeded Dr. Gro^s as surgical professor in the University of Louisville, but resigned after the first course of lectures. In 1850 he became professor of surgery in the University of Nashville, which was estab- lished at that time. In 1868 he accepted the pro- fessorship of surgery in the University of Missouri, but was obliged by the unhealthfulness of the cli- mate to return to Nashville, where he became pro- fessor of operative and clinical surgery. In 1877 he became professor of the principles of surgery and of the diseases of the genito-urinary organs in the Medical college there. He was one of the best surgeons in the southwest. In 1861 he was ap- pointed surgeon-general of Tennessee, and served during the war as hospital surgeon on the medi- cal examination board, and with the Confederate army at Shiloh, Columbus, Miss., Atlanta, and Au- gusta, Ga. He performed more than a hundred operations of lithotomy, usually by the bilateral method, and lost only eight out of ninety-two cases operated upon bilaterally. He is believed to have been the first American surgeon to excise the uterus in situ, the patient living over three months, and has removed the crista galli, the patient sur- viving six days, trephined the latei'al sinus of the brain, removed a nail from the lung by tracheoto- my, and performed other difficult operations. He was for a time editor of the " Southern Medical and Surgical Journal," and assisted in editing the Nashville " Medical and Surgical Journal." He has published over 600 articles on medical subjects. His most important works are " Remarkable Cases in Surgery" (1857); "One Hundred Cases of Litlx- otomy " in the " Transactions " of the American medical association for 1870 ; " What the South and West have done for American Surgery " ; and reports of 20 amputations and 13 resections at the hip-joint performed by Confederate surgeons, con- tributed to the " Medical History of the War."

EVELINE, Robert, an English colonist in Vir- ginia. He published " Direction for Adventurers, and True Description of the Healthiest, Pleasant- est, and Richest Plantation of New Albion, in North Virginia" (London, 1641).

EVERARD, Sir Richard, colonial governor of Carolina, d. in London, England, 17 Feb., 1738. He was the last of the proprietary governors, and his ad- ministration was disturbed by frequent altercations with the council. When he had been governor for four years the lords proprietors, in 1729, surrendered the provinces to the crown, each receiving in con- sideration of the surrender the sum of $12,500. The population of North and South Carolina, after the charter had been in existence sixty-six years, was not at that time more than 25,000 persons, in- cluding negroes. On the transfer, Everard was re- called, and the first royal governor, George Bur- rinfjton, succeeded him in February, 1730.

EVEREST, Charles William, poet, b. in East Windsor, Conn., 27 May, 1814 ; d. in Waterbury, Conn., 11 Jan., 1877. He was graduated at Trin- ity college in 1838, and ordained a pi'iest in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1843, became rec- tor at Haraden, Conn., and taught the rectory school. He contributed to magazines, edited many books of poems, and published " The Poets of Con- necticut " (Hartford, 1843).

EVERETT, Alexander Hill, b. in Boston, Mass., 19 March, 1792 ; d. in Macao, China, 28 June, 1847. He was a son of the Rev. Oliver Everett (who was pastor of the New south church in Boston from 1782 to 1792), and was graduated at Harvard in 1806 with the highest honors of his class, al- though the youngest of its members. After leaving college he was for a year assistant teacher in Phillips Exeter academy, then studied law in the office of John Quincy Adams, whom in 1809 he accompanied to Russia, residing for two years in his family, at tached to the legation. At the close of the war between the United States and Great Britain, Gov. Eustis, of Massachusetts, was appointed minister to the Netherlands, and Mr. Everett went with him as secretary of legation, but after a year of service returned home. On the retirement of Gov. Eustis he was appointed his successor, with the rank of charge d'affaires, and held this post from 1818 till 1824. In 1825-9 he was minister to Spain, after which he returned home and became proprietor and editor of the " North American Review," to which he had, during the editorship of his brother Edward, been one of the chief contributors. From 1830 till 1835 he sat in the legislature of Massachusetts ; in 1840 he 'resided, as a confidential agent of the United States, in the island of Cuba, and while there was appointed president of Jeffer- son college, Louisiana, but was soon obliged by failing health to return to New England. On the return of Caleb Cushing from his mission to China, Mr. Everett was appointed commissioner to that empire, and sailed for Canton, 4 July. 1845. He was detained by illness at Rio Janeiro, and re- turned home, but in the sunmier of 1846 made a second and more successful attempt to reach his destination, and died in Macao. Mr. Ever- ett's first published compositions appeared in the " Monthly Anthology," the vehicle of the Anthol- ogy club of Boston, which consisted of George Ticknor, William Tudor, Dr. Bigelow and Rev. J. S. J. Gardiner, Alexander H. Everett, and Rev. Messrs. Buckminster, Thacher, and Emerson. The "Monthly Anthology," established by Phineas Adams, was published from 1803 till 1811. Mr. Everett j)ublished "Europe, or a General Survey of the Political Situation of the Principal Powers, with Conjectures on their Future Prospects " (Lon- don and Boston, 1822 ; translated into German, French, and Spanish, the German version edited by Prof. Jacobi, of the University of Halle) ; " New Ideas on Population, with Remarks on the Theories of Godwin and Malthus" (London and Boston, 1822) ; " America, or a General Survey of the Po- litical Situation of the Several Powers of the West- ern Continent, with Conjectures on their Future Prospects, by a Citizen of the United States" (Philadelphia, 1827 ; London, 1828) : " Critical and Miscellaneous Essays" (fitst series, Boston, 1845; second series, 1847); and "Poems" (1845). To Sparks's " American Biography " Mr. Everett con- tributed the lives of Joseph Warren and Patrick Henry. His principal contributions to the " North American Review " are on the following subjects : French Dramatic Literature ; Louis Bonaparte ; Private Life of Voltaire; Literature of the 18th Century ; Dialogue on Representative Government, between Dr. Franklin and President Montesquieu ; Bernardin de St. Pierre ; Madame de Stael ; J. J. Rousseau; Mirabeau ; Schiller; Chinese Grammar; Cicero on Government ; Degerando's History of Philosophy ; Lord Byron ; British Opinions on the