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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Everett, Edward, educator, college president, governor, congressman. United States senator, cabinet officer, was born April 11, Dorchester, 1794, in

Mass.

He was a

dis-

Massachusetts statesman fam-

tinguished

ous

for

his

oratory.

He was

ordained to the unitarian ministry in 1813, but soon retired and entered political

1

life;

and

in

1825-35 he was representative to the nineteenth, twentieth, twen.,y-first,

twenty-

second and twenty-third congresses. In 1836-40 he was the sixteenth governor of Massachusetts. In 1846-49 he was president of Harvard college; and in 1852-53 he was secretary of state. In 1853-55 he was United States senator. He achieved a wide popularity, and his literary style was greatly admired. He was the author of Defense of Christianity; Orations and Speeches; Mount Vernon Papers; and Importance of Practical Education. He died Jan. 15, 1865, in Boston, Mass. Everett, Edward Franklin, genealogist,

was born May

28, 1840, in Northfield, Mass. the author of genealogies of the families of Capen and Everett; and other works. Everett, Erastus, educator, author, poet, was born in 1813 in Princeton, Mass. In 1855-75 he taught a select school in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and in 1875-79 was professor of

He

is

Greek and Latin in Rutgers female college; and subsequently of New Orleans college. He was the author of System of English He Versification; and Progress, a poem. died in 1900 in New Orleans, La. Everett, Henry Azarian, capitalist, railroad president, was born Oct. 16, 1856, in He has been an electric Cleveland, Ohio. railway and independent telephone promotHe is the er, constructor and operator. president of the Toledo railway and light company; president of the Northern Ohio traction and light company; and president of the London street railway company in

Canada. Everett, Henry Sidney, engineer, diplomat, was bom Dec. 31, 1834, in (Siarleston, Mass. In 1877-84 he was secretary of the United

States legation to Prussia; having four times acted as charge d'affaires during vaHe died Oct. 4, cancies in the legation. 1898, in England. Everett, Horace, lawyer, state senator congressman, was bom in 1780 in Vermont. He was state's attorney for Windsor coun ty in 1813-17; and served in the state legis lature in 1813-24 and 1834. He was a prom inent member of the state constitutional convention of 1828; and in 1829-43 he was a representative to the twenty-first, twenty second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twen-

ty-fifth,

and

twenty-sixth

congresses.

He

405

twenty-seventh

died Jan. 30, 1851, in

Wind-

Vt. Everett, John, lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 22, 1801, in Dorchester, Mass. He was the author of Ode to St. Paul's Church; and of articles in the North American Review. He died in 1826 in Boston, Mass. Everett, Robert Gordon, soldier, was born Sept. 14, 1880, in Concord, N.H. During tne Spanish-American war he served as corporal in the seventy-first New York regiment United States volunteers; and was said to be the youngest soldier on the firing line in the battle of San Juan. He died Sept. 4, 1898, in the service of his country. 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; and served twelve years on the board of education, the last four as president of the board. In 1882-85 he was a member of the general assembly of Georgia. In 1891-93 he was a representative from Georgia to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. Everett, W. I., civil engineer, business man, state senator, was born Jan. 3, 1835, He was educated in Richmond county, N.C. at the Richmond academy; and at Chapel Hill, N.C. ; and by prosor,

i

a

enseveral years he was chief engineer and general superintendent of the fession gineer.

is

civil

For

Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford railroad; is now engaged in farming, merchandising and manufacturing at Rockingham, N.C. For twelve years he was county commissioner; and in 1885 and 1905 was elected a member of the North Carolina state senate. Everett, William, educator, congressman, author, was born Oct. 10, 1839, in Water-

town, Mass. In 1893-95 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the fifty-third congress. He is the author of Lectures on Cambridge University; Patriotism; and several books for boys. Everett, Willis Mead, lawyer, author, was For 18, 1863, in Randolph, N.Y. many years he filled the chair of mathematics and German in the Chamberlain instiHe has practiced tute of Randolph, N.Y. law in Cincinnati, Chicago and Atlanta; and has been director and officer in many large corporations. He is the author of The Georgia Section of Law of Incorporated Com-

born Nov.

panies.

Everhard, suffragist,

Caroline

was born

Massillon, Ohio.

McCuUough,

woman

Sept. 14, 1843, in For eleven years she was