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390 University of Berlin, Germany, and after his return was librarian and tor two years tutor, and then for two years professor of modern languages, at Bow- doin. He then entered Harvard divinity-school, and was graduated in 1859. For the next ten years he was pastor of the Independent Congregational church in Bangor, Me., which post he resigned in 18(59 to accept the Bussey professorship of the- ology in Harvard university. In 1878 he became also dean of the theological faculty. He has pub- lished, besides pamphlets and reviews, " The Science of Thought" (Boston, 1869); a discourse commemo- rative of Leonard Woods (1879) ; " Religions before Christianity," a Sunday-school manual (Boston, 1883) ; and " Fichte's Science of Knowledge, a Critical Exposition " (Chicago, 1884).

EVERETT, David, journalist, b. in Princeton, Mass., 29 March, 1770; d. in Marietta, Ohio, 21 Dec, 1813. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1795. While teaching a grammar-school at New Ipswich he wrote the well-known juvenile recitation, beginning, " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." He studied law in Boston, and wrote for Russell's '• Gazette " and Dennie's " Farmer's Museum." He contributed to a literary paper, the " Nightingale," in 179G. He removed to Amherst in 1802, where he practised law. Returning to Boston in 1807, in 1809 he edited the " Boston Patriot," and in 1812 the " Pilot." He wrote a series of jiapers on the Apocalypse, which were published in a pamphlet. He left Boston in 1813 for Marietta. Ohio, for the purpose of establishing a newspaper, but death in- terrupted his plans. He was the author of " Com- mon Sense in Dishabille " and '• Farmer's Monitor " (1799) ; " The Rights and Duties of Nations," an essay ; " Junius Americanus," in the " Boston Gazette," in defence of John Adams ; and " Da- renzel, or the Persian Patriot,"- a tragedy, which was brought out in Boston (Boston, 1800).

EVERETT, Edward Franklin, genealogist, b. in Northiield, Mass., 28 May, 1840. He was graduated at Harvard in 1860. He was recording secretary of the New England historical and gen- ealogical society in 1862. From 1862 till 1865 he served in the volunteer army as lieutenant in 2d Massachusetts heavy artillery regiment, after which he was engaged in the fire insurance business in Boston. He is the author of " Genealogy of the Everett Family" (1860), and "Genealogy of the Cai)en Family," published in the " New England Historical and Genealogical Register " (1866). Since 1882 he has been engaged in preparing the two works for publication in book form.

EVERETT, Erastus, educator, b. in Princeton, Mass., in 1813. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1836, and from 1840 till 1843 was professor of English history at Jefferson college, St. James parish. La. In the latter year he assisted in found- ing the Orleans high-school at New Orleans, and in 1849 became its principal. The school was chartered as a college in 1854, and he served as its president till 1855. From that year until 1875 he taught a select school at Brooklyn, N. Y., and for the four years following was professor of Greek and Latin in Rutgers female college. He is the author of "A System of English Versification" (New York, 1848), and " Progress," a poem.

EVERETT, Horace, congressman, b. in Ver- mont in 1780 ; d. in Windsor, Vt., 30 Jan., 1851. He was graduated at Brown in 1797, studied law, and practised in Windsor. He was a member of the Vermont legislature in 1819-'30, 1822-'4, and 1834, a prominent member of the State constitutional convention of 1828, and in that year was elected to congress as a Whig, serving from 1829 to 1843. While a member of congress he was a zealous ad- vocate of the rights of the Indians.

EVERETT, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Queen Anne county, Md., 17 June, 1732 ; d. in Cambridge, Md., 16 Aug., 1809. While living a licentious life he was converted at a meeting of the followers of Whitefield in 1763, and entered the communion of the Presbyterian church. He was a zealous Whig, and fought with the Maryland militia in the Revo- lutionary war. He had grown less earnest in re- ligious matters, when, in 1778, he was deeply im- pressed by the preaching of Francis Asbury, united with the Methodist church, and in 1780 became an itinerant preacher. He was ordained a deacon in 1786, and an elder in 1788. He was presiding elder of Cecil and neighboring circuits in 1789-'90, and of other districts in Maryland till 1800, when he became presiding elder in Philadelphia, and afterward of the Delaware district. In 1804 he became disabled for continuous labor, though he continued to preach as a supernumerary. He was distinguished for the boldness and directness of his preaching, and was one of the most successful of the early Methodist revivalists.

EVERHART, Benjamin Matlack, botanist, b. near West Chester, Pa., 24 April, 1818. His father, William Everhart, the son of a Revolutionary soldier, was a merchant, and a member of congress in 1853-'5. Benjamin was educated in private schools in West Chester, and spent his early life in mercantile business there and in Charleston, S. C. From boyhood he was an ardent student of botany, and since retiring from business in 1867 he has devoted himself almost entirely to that science, particularly to cryptogamic botany. In connection with J. B. Ellis, of New Jersey, he has been active in issuing yearly fifty volumes, called &ldquo;The Century of North American Fungi,&rdquo; each volume describing 100 species. At the same time, with W. A. Kellerman, of Kansas, they are publishing the &ldquo;Journal of Mycology.&rdquo; He is a specialist of deserved repute in his science, has discovered many new fungi, and several such plants have been named for him by his fellow-scientists. &mdash; His brother, James Bowen, author, b. near West Chester, Pa., 26 July, 1821, was graduated at Princeton in 1842, and studied law in West Chester, Philadelphia, and at the Harvard law-school. After practising law in West Chester for a few years, he travelled extensively in Europe and the east, and then devoted himself to literature. He was elected to the state senate in 1876, and was re-elected in 1880, but resigned in 1883, having been chosen as a Republican to congress, where he served in 1883-'7, and then retired to private life. His writings, which are marked by terseness of style, include &ldquo;Miscellanies,&rdquo; in prose (West Chester, Pa,, 1862); a volume of short poems (Philadelphia, 1868); and &ldquo;The Fox Chase,&rdquo; a poem (Philadelphia, 1875).

EVERTS, Orpheus, physician, b. in Union county, Tnd., 26 Dec, 1826. His father, a physician from Vermont, was a pioneer in Indiana. Orpheus was graduated at the medical college connected with La Porte university, Ind., in 1846, practised in St. Charles, 111., and in indiana]"»olis, Ind., served as a field surgeon during the civil war, and in 1868 became superintendent of the Indiana hospital for the insane. He designed the female department in the hospital on an original plan. In 1880 he became superintendent of the Cincinnati sanitarium, a private hospital for the insane. Besides papers in medical journals, he has published "Giles & Co., or Views and Interviews concerning Civilization"