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EV'ERHART, James Bowen, representative, was Imrii ill West Cliester. I'a.. July 26, Itiil; son of William and Hannah (Matlack) Everhart. His father was a representative in the 33d congress. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1842, studied law at Harvard and with Wil- liam M. Meredith in Philadelphia, was admitted to the bar in 1844, and in 1847-50 visited Europe, making one j'ear postgraduate studies at the Uni- versity of Berlin and several mouths at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. He visited the important places in Europe, extending his visits to Asia and Africa, and on returning to America in 18.50 resumed the practice of law in West Chester. In 1860 he retired from active business, and in 1863 served in the volunteer army raised in Pennsyl- vania to I'epel Lee's first invasion. He also com- manded a company in the second invasion in 1863 and was promoted major of the regiment. He was a state senator, 1877-83, resigning in the latter year and serving as a representative from the sixth Pennsylvania district in the 48th and 49th congresses. 1883-87. He published: Mittcellanies, a volume of travel (1863) ; a volume of short poems (1868) and The Fox Chase, a poem (1875). He died in West Chester, Pa., Aug. 23, 1888.

EVERHART, John Roskell, surgeon, was born in West Chester, Pa., in 1838; son of William and Hannah (Matlack) Everhart, and brother of Benjamin Matlack and James Bowen Everhart. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1850, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1853. He continued his medical and surgical studies in Paris and began practice in 1855. He was appointed surgeon of the !(7th Pennsylvania volunteers in 1863. By en- forcing sanitary measures, he was successful in conquering the yellow fever which had become epidemic iji the camp at Hilton Head. S.C., in 1863. He was made brigade surgeon and a member of the examining board of surgeons, department of the south, under General Hunter. At the close of the war he was retired with the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. He afterward travelled exten- sively, and collected in a book entitled liij Bunt and Hail, a description of the countries visited and the various types of inhabitants.

EVERHART, William, representative, was born in Chester county, Pa., May 17, 1785, the eldest son of James Everhart, an American sol- dier in the Revolutionary war. He was educated at the neighboring school and was a land surveyor and school teacher till his twenty -first birthday, when he entered into mercantile business in his native county. He was captain of a company of riflemen in the war of 1813. In 1823 he took passage for Europe on the packet ship Albion, wrecked off the coast of Ireland, and he was the only passenger saved. He lost in the wreck

SlO.OOO in gold, intended for the purchase of a stock ot goods for his store. He refused to receive from the owners of the vessel part of the gold recovered from the wreck, as he could not be sure of its identity with the gold pieces he had lost. He returned to America, purchased a large farm on the outskirts of West Chester, Pa., and made it an addition to the city, laying out streets and building residences. He was a representative in the 33d congress, 1853-55. and vigorously op- posed the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He declined renomination in 1854. He retired from the mercantile business in 1867. He was mar- ried early in life to Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Matlack, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and had three sons : Benjamin Matlack, a celebrated botanist, James Bowen, a representative in con- gress, and John Roskell, a distinguished surgeon. He diediji West Chester. Pa., Oct. 30, 1867.

EVERMANN, Barton Warren, uaturalist. was born in Monroe county, Iowa, Oct. 34. 1853; son of Andrew and Net}- (Gardner) Evermann, and a descendant of Michael Evermann of Hanover. Va. He was brought up on a farm, was educated in the public schools of Carroll county. Ind., was teacher and county superintendent of schools in Indiana and California, 1871-81 ; assistant in the department of biology, Indiana university, 1881- 83, and 1885-86; studied at Howard college, Kokomo, Ind., and at Indiana state university, 1883-86 and was graduated from the latter, A.B., 1886. A.M., 1888. and Ph.D., 1891. He was pro- fessor of biology in the Indiana state normal school. 1886-91; assistant to the U.S. fish com- mission, 1888-91, and was appointed ichthyologist of that commis.sion in 1891. He was superintend- ent of bird migration for the district of Indiana and Michigan, 1881-91; a U.S. fur seal commis- sioner in 1893, making studies of the fur seal in the north Pacific and Bering sea for the Paris tribunal ; and special lecturer at the Leland Stanford, Jr., university, Cal. , in 1894. He became a member of the Indiana academy of sciences, the California acadenry of sciences, the National geo- graphic society, Washington, the Biological so- ciety, the Washington academy of sciences, the Cosmos club and other scientific societies. He is the author of more than two hundred papers and books upon biological and educational subjects, their titles including: Animal Analysis (1883); The Birds of Ventura County, Cal. (1886); Bird Migration (1886) ; Herision of the Genus Gerres (1886): The Birds of Carroll County, hid. (1887); The Fi.'<hes of the Gulf of California (1891); The Foodfishes of Indiana (with Dr. David Starr Jordan, 1888); U.S. Fish Commission Investi- gations in Montana, Wyoming and Texas ( 1893) ; The Fishes of the Rio Grande Basin (1894); The .s;,lmou of the Columbia Hirer (1894^1897); The