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he was professor of English history at Jefferson college, St. James parish. lu 1843 he assisted in the organization of the Orleans high school. New Orleans, and was connected with the school for twelve years. He was prin- cipal of the school, 1849-54, and when it was chartered as a college in 1854 he be- came its first presi- dent. In 1855 he re- moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he taught in select schools twenty years. He was then called to the chair of Greek and Latin in Rutgers female college, New York city, serving 1875-79. Dartmouth made him LL.D. in 1870. He wrote: Si/sfem of English Versification ^1848). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y.. May 7, 1900.

EVERETT, Horace, representative, was born in Vermont in 1780. He was graduated from Brown university in 1797, was afterward admitted to the Vermont bar and established a practice in Windsor. He was prosecuting attorney for Wind- sor county, 1813-17; a member of the legislature, 1819-30, 1832-24 and 1834; and a member of the Vermont constitutional convention in 1838. He was a Whig representative in the 21st, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th congresses, serving 1829-31, 1833-41. On June 3, 1836, he made a notable speech in congress against the Indian bounty bill and against the removal of the Indians to Indian Territory. He died at Windsor, Vt., Jan. 30, 1851. EVERETT, Robert William, representative, was born near Hayneville, Houston county, Ga., March 3. 1839; son of Alexander and Harriet (Bryan) Everett, and a grandson of Myles Ever- ett, who emigrated from Gliowan county, N.C., to West Florida in 1827 He was i-eared on a farm and spent his younger years in attending the village school and working upon the farm alter- nately. In 1856 he entered Mercer university, from which institution he was graduated A.B., 1859, A.M., 1863. He served in the Confederate army during the civil war as a member of General Forrest's escort squadron. In 1866 he became principal of Cornelian institute, which position he retained until 1872, when he removed to Polk county, Ga., and devoted himself to agriculture. For twelve years he was president of the county board of education; for two years commissioner of revenues, and from 1883 to 1885 a member of the state legislature, being chairman of the com-

mittee on agriculture. He represented his districi, in the 53d congress, 1891-93, when he voluntarily retired from politics. He was elected president of the board of trustees of Piedmont college, and a member of the state legislature from Polk county in 1898.

EVERETT, William, teacher, was born in Watertown, Mass., Oct. 10, 1839; son of Edward and Charlotte Gray (Brooks) Everett. He at- tended the Cambridge high school and the Boston Latin school, and was graduated from Harvard in 1859, I'eceiving his A.M. degree in 1863. He then entered Cambridge university, England, where he held a scholarship at Trinity college, and received the degrees of A.B. in 1863 and A.M. in 1870. He was graduated from the law depart- ment of Harvard in 1865 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1866, but never practised law. He was tutor at Harvard, 1870-73; assistant professor of Latin, 1873-77; and lecturer, 1876-77. In 1872 he was licensed to preach by the Suffolk associa- tion of Unitarian ministers. In 1878 lie became principal of Adams academy at Quincy, Mass. , and remained as such until 1893, being reappointed in 1898 on the death of W. R. Tyler. He took an active part in the presidential campaign of 1884 in support of Mr. Cleveland. He was an unsuc- cessful candidate for representative in congress in 1890 and again in 1892; but was chosen at a by election in 1893 and served throughout the 53d congi-ess, withholding his name from the nomi- nating convention in 1894. He received from Harvard the degree of Ph.D. in 1875 and from Williams the degrees of L.H.D. in 1889 and LL.D. in 1893. His published writings include numerous es.says, poems and magazine articles; On the Cam (1865); Chniufiim Base (,lSeS); Dotible Phiy (1870); Schaol Senmois (1881); Thine not Mine (1890).

EVERHART, Benjamin Matlack, botanist, was born in West Chester, Pa., April 24, 1818; son of William and Hannah (Matlack) Everhart. His father was a representative from West Ches- ter in the 33d congress, 1853-55. His grandfather, James Everhart, was a soldier in the American Revolution. Benjamin was given a good business education and engaged in commercial pursuits in his native town and in Charleston, S. C. He retired from active business in 1867, and thereafter de- voted himself to the study of botany, which science had engi-ossed much of his time at school and in his leisure hours. He made a specialtj^ of cryptogamic botany, discovering man j' new fungi. and was honored by his fellow botanists by their naming several such plants for him. In collabo- ration with J. B. Ellis he edited and issued: The CenUiry of North American Fun<ji in fifty volumes with 5000 sjiecies, and with W. A. Kellerman the Jovrnal of Myenloyy