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John Quincy Adams, 1808-09, and was in Russia in 1809-11, while Mr. Adams was U.S. minister. He accompanied U.S. Minister EiLstis to the Netherlands and was secretary of legation in 1815 and chai-ije d'affaires, 1818-24, by appointment of President Monroe. He was U.S. minister to Spain 1825-29, by appointment of Presi- dent Adams. He was editor and proprietor of the North American nn-icto. 1830-40; rep- resented his district in the state legi.sla- ture, 1830-35; was sent to Cuba in 1840 by Pi'esident Van Buren as confidential agent, and the same year was elected pres- ident of Jefferson colle,ge, Louisiana. Life in the tropics having impaired his health he was obliged to return to Boston, and in March, 1845, President Polk appointed him commissioner to the Empire of China. He did not reach his post at Macao until the autumn of 1846 on account of the state of liis health, and he died after residing in China about ten months. He received from Yale the honorary degree of B,A. in 1807; from Harvard that of A.M. in 1809; from the University of Vermont that of LL.D. in 1826; and from Mid- dlebury college that of LL.D. in 1839. He was a member of the American philosophical society, a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences and a member of the Massachusetts histox-ical society. He was an early contributor to the Monthly Antholoc/ij and published, besides several orations, Etirope, or a General Survey of the Political Situation of the Principal Powers, with Conjectures on their Future Prospects (1822); iVpw Ideas on Population, with Pemarks on the Theories of Godwin and Malthns (1822); America, or a Gen- eral Surrey of the Political Situation of the Several Poicers of the Western Continent, loith Conjectures on their Future Prospects by a Citizen of the United States (1827); Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1845-47); and Poems (1845). He was a contribu- tor to Sparks's American Biography, to the Xorth American Pevieio, to the Democratic Pevievj, and to the Boston Qnarterhj Prrirw He died in Macao, China, June 28, 1H17.

EVERETT, Charles Carroll, educator, was born at Brunswick, Maine. June 19, 1829; son of Ebenezer and Joanna B. (Prince) Everett; gi-and- son of the Rev. Moses and Hannah (Clap) Gardner Everett, and of Joseph and Joanna (Batchelor) Prince; great-grandson of the Rev. Joseph Prince,

"the blind preacher"; and a descendant of Rich- ard Everett, who removed to Dedham, Mass., as one of its first settlers in 1636-37. He was gradu- ated from Bowdoin in 1850, and studied in the University of Berlin, Germany, 1850-53. He was librarian at Bowdoin college, 1853-57, tutor, 1853- 55. and professor of modern languages, 1855-57. He then entered Harvard divinity school and was graduated in 1859. He was pastor of the Unita- rian church at Bangor, Maine, 1859-69, resigning in the latter year to accept the Bussey chair of theology in Harvard divinity school, and was made dean of the faculty in 1878. He was chosen chairman of the editorial board of The jVexv World. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Bowdoin and from Harvard in 1870, that of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1894. He published The Science of Tliought (1869); Religions before Christianity (1833): Fichtes Science of Knowledge (1884); Puetnj. Comedy and Duty (1888). The Gosiiel of Paul (1H93). He died in Cambridge, Oct. 16, 1900. EVERETT, Edward, statesman, was born in Dorchester, Mass, April 11, 1794; son of the Rev. Oliver and Lucy (Hill) Everett. He was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1811 with first honors, having been an editor of the Harvard Lyceum during his senior year. He was tutor in Harvard, 1812-14. studied theolog}' there, and in 1812 delivered the poem "American Poets" before the Phi Beta Kappa society. In 1813 he was installed minister of the Brat- tle Square (Unita- rian) church in Bos- ton, and his eloquence as a speaker placed him in the front rank in a church celebrated for its great preach- ers. In 1814 he was elected professor of Greek literature in Harvard, the chair having been founded that year by an un- known benefactor. The death in 1820 of Samuel Eliot discovered the founder, and the cor- poration named it the Eliot professorship < f Greek literature. Permission was given him to visit Europe for his health and prepare him- self for his professorial duties. He first visited England and was keirt there until after the battle of Waterloo, when he proceeded to Gottingen. where he spent two years in study. He went thence to Paris, then to England and Scotland. and in 1818 to Italy, where he studied the arts and literature of ancient and modern Rome. In 1819 he visited Greece, having letters of intro-

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