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Charles O'Conor, counsel for the state of Vir- ginia (1857-60); the Parrish will contest, and that of Mrs. Gardner, mother of President Tyler's wife. He was counsel for the government in es- tablishing before the supreme court the right of the government to condemn as prizes captured vessels according to the laws of war (1863); he maintained the unconstitutionality of state laws taxing U.S. bonds or national bank stock with- out the authorization of congress (1865-66); and was senior counsel for Henry Ward Beecher (1874-75). His public addre.sses include: eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase at Dartmouth college, 1873; the Centennial oration in Philadelphia, 1876; and orations at the unveiling of the statues of William H. Seward and of Daniel Webster in New York city and of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty on Bedloe's island. New York harbor. He was a fellow of Yale corporation, 1873-91, an<l received from Yale the degree of A.M. in 1840 and that of LL.D. in 1865. He also received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Union in 1857 and from Harvard in 1870. He was an honorary member of the Massachusetts historical society and of other learned organizations. He was an original trustee of the Peabody education fund, appointed in 1867 and in 1899 was president of the board and the last living member of the original board of trustees. Of his four sons, Allen Wardner, Yale, 1869, Columbia. LL.B., 1871; Sherman. Yale. 1881; and Maxwell, Yale, 1884, became practising lawyers in New York city; and Prescott, Harvard, 1881, General theo- logical seminary. New York city, S.T.B., 1887, became rector of Wappinger's Falls, N.Y. He died in New York city, Feb. 38, 1901.

EVE, Paul Fitzsimmons, surgeon, was born in Richmond county, (iu., June 27, 1806; son of Oswell and Aphra Ann Eve; and a cousin of Dr. Joseph Adams Eve, professor of obstetrics in the Georgia medical college, Augusta. Paul was graduated at Franklin college (Uni- versity of Georgia) in 1826, and from the medi- cal department of the University of Penn.syl- vania in 1828. He was in Europe, 1828-31, and besides hospital prac- tice in Paris and Lon- don served as ambu- lance surgeon in the French revolution of 1830, and as regimental surgeon in the insurrec- tionary war in Poland the same year. He was elected professor of surgery in the Medical col-

lege of Georgia at its organization in 1833, in Au gusta, and served until 1849. He succeeded Prof S. D. Gross to the chair of surgery in the Uni- versity of Louisville in 1849, and in 1850 became professor of surgery in the newly established University of Nashville. He removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1868, to accept the chair of surgery in the University of Missouri, but was obliged to resign for climatic causes. He filled the chair of oper- ative and clinical surgeiy in the University of Nashville until 1877, when he became professor of surgery in the Nashville medical college. He was made surgeon-general of the Confederate army in 1861, andserved on the medical examination board and with the army in the battles of Shiloli and Columbus, and at Atlanta and Augusta. His reputation as a surgeon was world-wide, and he introiiuced methods never before known to surgi- cal science in America. He was president of the American medical association in 1857 and of the Tennessee state medical society in 1870. He edited the Southern Medical and Siirgical Journal and the Nashville Medical and tim-gical Journal. Among his six hundred articles published in book form, pamphlets or in medical journals, are; Itemarkable Cases in Surgery (1857); One Hundred Cases of Lithotomy in the Transactions of the Amer- ican medical association for 1870; WTiat the South and West have done for American Surgery; and re- ports of twenty amputations and thirteen resec- tions at the hip-joint performed by Confederate surgeons, contributed to the Medical History of the War. He died in Nashville, Term., Nov. 3, 1877. EVEREST, Harvey William, educator, was born in North Hudson, N.Y., Jlay 10, 1831; son of William B. and Lydia (Smith) Everest. He was educated in Ohio, at Geauga seminary. Western Reserve eclectic institute, Bethany college, and was graduated from Oberlin college in 1861. He was president of Eureka college, 1804-73 and 1877-81; professor of sacred history in Kentucky university, 1874-76; president of Butler univer- sity, 1881-86; chancellor of Garfleld imiversity, 1886-90; regent of the Southern Illinois state nor- mal university, Carbondale. 1893-97, and dean of Bible college, Drake miiversity, from 1897. He received the degree of LL. D. He is the author of Tlie Divine Demonstration — a Text-hook of Christian Evidence; and Tlo- Xciu h'llnca/ion.

EVERETT, Alexander Hill, diplomati.st, was born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1790; son of the Rev. Oliver and Lucy (Hill) Everett; grand- son of Ebeuezer and Joanna (Stevens) Everett. and an elder brother of Edward Everett. His father was pastor of the New South church in Boston, 1782-92. Alexander was graduated at Harvard in 1806, the youngest member and hon- or-man of the class. He then taught in Philliiis Exeter academy, 1807, studied law in the office of