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secretary of the

humane

society of her na-

has been trustee of the charity Eatch school; a director of the Union national bank of Massillon; and a member of the county visiting board to charitable and In 1891 she was correctional institutions. elected president of the Ohio woman suftive

city;

frage association. Everhart, Benjamin Mablack, botanist, author, was born April 24, 1818, in West Chester, Pa. He discovered new fungi; and several such plants have been named for him. In connection with J. B. Ellis of New Jersey he was actively engaged in issuing yearly fifty volumes, called The Century of North American Fungi. He died in 1904 in West Chester, Pa. Everhart, Isaiah Fawkes, army surgeon, physician, naturalist, was born Jan. 32, He served 1840, in Berks county. Pa. throughout the civil

war;

was surgeon

guard of Pennsylvania and attained the rank of major. He served as a member oi

the the

medical

staff

of

Lackawanna hosand was a member of the Scranton

board of health. He has been president of the Everhart brass works of Scranton, Pa.; president of the Everhart anthracite coal company; and is identified with various other corporations. He founded and endowed the Everhart museum of natural

and art at Scranton, Pa. This eminent physician and surgeon still

history,

science

practices his profession in Scranton, Pa. Everhart, James Bowen, lawyer, state senator, congressman, author, poet, was born July 26, 1821, in West Chester, Pa, In 187684 he was a state senator. In 1883-87 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses. He was the author of two volumes of poems entitled Poems; and The Fox Chase. He died Aug. 23, 1888, in West Chester, Pa.

Everhart, James Marlon, manufacturer, inventor, was born June 7, 1828, in Berks county, Pa. In 1874 he gained entire control of the Scranton brass works and introduced many improvements and inventions. He has been president of two coal companies. Everhart, John Roskell, surgeon, 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 is the author of

By Road and

Rail.

physician, genealoHe is a noted gist, was born May 18, 1832. physician of Hanover, Pa.; and has been

Everhart,

Oliver

T.,

Everhart, William, congressman, was bom ilay 17, 1785, in Chester county, Pa. In 1853-55 he was a representative to the thirty-third congress.

He

died Oct. 30, 1867, in

Pennsylvania.

Evermann, Barton Warren, naturalist, auwas born on Oct. 34, 1853, in Monroe county. Iowa. He graduated from the Inthor,

diana university witn the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. For ten years he was a teacher and superintendent of schools in Indiana and California. In 1886-91 he was professor of biology at the Indiana state normal school; in 1888-91

in

the eighth and sixteenth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; in 1861-65 he was surgeon of ninth regiment of national

pital;

assistant surgeon in the United States army. is the author of History of Everhart and Shower Families.

He

was an assistant, and since 1891 he has been ichthyologist. In 190203 he was chief of the division of fisheries; and since 1903 has been assistant in charge of the scientific inquiry in the United States bureau of fisheries. Since 1903 he has lectured at Yale college. He is the author of Studies of the Salmon of the Pacific Coast of America; The Fishes of North and Middle America, in four volumes; The Fishes of Porto Rico; American Food and Game Fishes; The Alaska Salmon Fisheries; Fishes of the Philippines ; The Golden Trout of the Southern High Sierras; and other works. Evers, John, painter, artist, 17, 1797, in

Newtown,

L.I.

was born Aug.

He was

one of

the founders of the national academy of design. His best known pictures are Creation; New York City; and Crystal Palace, London. He died in Hempstead, L.I. Everts,

Orpheus, physician, surgeon, au-

was born Dec. 26, 1826, in Salem Settlement, Union county, Ind. In 1861-65 he was a surgeon in the

thor,

twentieth regiment Indiana volunteers; and was on staff duty for three years. In 186879 he was superintendent of the Indiana hospital for insane and in 1880-1903 filled the same position in the Cincinnati sanitarium of Ohio. He was the author of Giles

and

What

Iiitiiic«s Shall

We

and

Co., or

Views

Concerning Civilization; Do with the Drunkard;

Facts and Fancies; The Cliffords; and numerous contributions on insanity to medical literature. He died cinnati, Ohio.

June

19,

1903, in Cin-