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* EVERETT. 312 EVERETT. Memorial and Shute Memorial — and the Whidden Memorial Hospital. The government is adminis- tered, under the original city charter of 1892, by an annually elected mayor and a bicameral city council, of which the members of the upper house are elected at large for two years, and those of the lower by wards for one year. Of the other municipal officials, the more important are nomi- nated by the executive and confirmed by the board of aldermen, and those of less importance are chosen by the city council. The school board is elected at large. Population, in 1890, 11,068; in 1900. 24.33(5. "Everett was settled in 1043 and remained a part of the town of Maiden till 1870. It was chartered as a city in 1892, and had a rapid growth during the last decade of the nine- teenth century. EVERETT. A city and the county-seat of Snohomish County, Wash., 33 miles north of Seattle; on Puget Sound, and on the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and the Everett and Monte Cristo railroads, and the Pacific Coast Steamship Line (Map: Washington, C 2). It was settled in 1891 and incorporated in 1893, an 1 has had a remarlfably rapid growth in population and in the development of commercial and manu- facturing interests. This has been due to its natural advantages as the centre of a productive lumbering, agricultural, and mining region. The city carries on extensive trade in lumber, shingles, paper, flour, and bullion, and there are large saw and shingle mills, pulp and paper mills, ship- yards, iron-works, smelting and refining works, and many other industrial plants. Everett has a public library, and United States customs and assayer's offices. The government is administered under the State laws for cities of the third class, which provide for a Mayor, annually elected, and a city council. Population, in 1900, 7838. EVERETT, Alexander Hill (1792-1847). An American diplomatist and political writer. He was born in Boston, Mass., the son of the Rev. Oliver Everett, and brother of the orator Edward Everett. He graduated with highest honors at Harvard in 1806. was admitted to the bar. appointed United States charge d'affaires at The Hague in 1818. and Minister at Madrid in 1825. Upon his return in 1829 he became pro- prietor and editor of the North I merican Review, and was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1840 he was sent by the Government to Cuba as confidential agent, and appointed in 1845 to a diplomatic post at Peking, a post which he held
 * it hi- death. His literary activity began early,

lie made frequent contributions to The Monthly Anthology (1803-11). His first -important book, Europe, or a General Survey <•{ tfhe Political Situation of the Principal Powers, with t'un/r, tures <>n Their Future Prospects (1822). was translated into German, French, and Spanish. A similar work on America appeared in 1827, hav- ing been preceded by New Ideas on Population (1822). Other books were: critical ami Mis- cellaneous Essays (1845-47), and Lives of Joseph Warren and Patrick Henry in Sparks's Amrr- Biography. Frequent contributions, lit- erary and political, to the North American Review, and economic essays in the Boston Quarterly, attest the unremitting labors of a busy life, lb- shared something of his brother's ora- torical power, the more noteworthy of hi- pub lished orations being "The French Revolution," "The Battle of New Orleans," and 'The Battle of Bunker Hill." EVERETT, Charles Carroll (1829-1900). An American clergyman and educator, born at Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine. He grad- uated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and took a supplementary course in Germany. After teach- ing languages at Bowdoin College he graduated at Harvard Divinity School (1859), and during the following ten years was pastor of the Inde- pendent Congregational Church (Unitarian) at Bangor, Me. He became Bussey professor of theology in Harvard University in 1869, and dean of Harvard Divinity School in 1878. .His prin- cipal publications are: The Science of Thought (1869; revised 1890) ; Fichte's Science of Knowl- edge (1884) ; Poetry, Comedy, and Duty (1888) ; Ethics for Young People (1892) ; The Gospel of Paul (1893). EVERETT, Edward (1794-1865). An Ameri- can statesman, orator, and scholar. He was born at Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794; was at one time a pupil in a Boston school of which Daniel Webster, in the absence of his brother Ezekiel, was the teacher; graduated at Harvard in 1811; and in 1813 became the pastor of the Brattle Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston. As a preacher his career was brilliant though brief. He resigned his pastorate early in 1815, when not quite twenty-one years of age. to accept the Eliot professorship of Greek literature at Harvard. To fit himself more completely for this position he went to Europe, studied for two years in the University of Gbttingen, where he re- ceived the degree of Ph.D., and then traveled ex- tensively in England and on the Continent. Upon his return in 1819, he entered upon the duties of his professorship, delivering at the outset a course of lectures on ancient Greece, which he after- wards repeated in Boston. From 1820 to 1824 lie was also the editor of the North American Re- view, to which he contributed a great number of articles. In 1824 he was elected to Congress from the Cambridge district, and was subsequently elected four successive times. During the whole ten years lie was a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and in the Twentieth Congress was its chairman. In 1836 he became Governor of Massachusetts, which office he held by annual reelection until 1840, having been defeated for an additional term, in the election of 1839, by a -in gle vote. From 1841 to 1845 he was Minister Pleni- potentiary of the United States to Great Britain. Returning in 1846, he reluctantly accepted the presidency of Harvard University, which position, however, he resigned in 1849. lie then estab lished himself in Boston with the purpose of en- tering upon literary tasks long postponed, lie was summoned to fill the place of Secretary of State in (lie Cabinet of President Fillmore, made racant by Air. Webster's death (1852). He held this position only four months, retiring at the close of President Fillmore's administration. Be- fore leaving the Department of State lie :i- elected to the United state- Senate. Everett represented the conservative Whigs, and was looked upon a- Webster's political executor, in- sisting upon the inviolability of the Constitution and recognizing the presence and possible con- tinuance of slavery. His health failing, he re- signed his scat in the Senate in May. 1854, and retired to private life In I860 he was nominated