University of Berlin, Germany, and after his return was librarian and tor two years tutor, and then for two years professor of modern languages, at Bow- doin. He then entered Harvard divinity-school, and was graduated in 1859. For the next ten years he was pastor of the Independent Congregational church in Bangor, Me., which post he resigned in 18(59 to accept the Bussey professorship of the- ology in Harvard university. In 1878 he became also dean of the theological faculty. He has pub- lished, besides pamphlets and reviews, " The Science of Thought" (Boston, 1869); a discourse commemo- rative of Leonard Woods (1879) ; " Religions before Christianity," a Sunday-school manual (Boston, 1883) ; and " Fichte's Science of Knowledge, a Critical Exposition " (Chicago, 1884).
EVERETT, David, journalist, b. in Princeton,
Mass., 29 March, 1770; d. in Marietta, Ohio, 21
Dec, 1813. He was graduated at Dartmouth in
1795. While teaching a grammar-school at New
Ipswich he wrote the well-known juvenile recitation, beginning,
" You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage."
He studied law in Boston, and wrote for Russell's
'• Gazette " and Dennie's " Farmer's Museum." He
contributed to a literary paper, the " Nightingale,"
in 179G. He removed to Amherst in 1802, where
he practised law. Returning to Boston in 1807, in
1809 he edited the " Boston Patriot," and in 1812
the " Pilot." He wrote a series of jiapers on the
Apocalypse, which were published in a pamphlet.
He left Boston in 1813 for Marietta. Ohio, for the
purpose of establishing a newspaper, but death in-
terrupted his plans. He was the author of " Com-
mon Sense in Dishabille " and '• Farmer's Monitor "
(1799) ; " The Rights and Duties of Nations," an
essay ; " Junius Americanus," in the " Boston
Gazette," in defence of John Adams ; and " Da-
renzel, or the Persian Patriot,"- a tragedy, which
was brought out in Boston (Boston, 1800).
EVERETT, Edward Franklin, genealogist,
b. in Northiield, Mass., 28 May, 1840. He was
graduated at Harvard in 1860. He was recording
secretary of the New England historical and gen-
ealogical society in 1862. From 1862 till 1865 he
served in the volunteer army as lieutenant in 2d
Massachusetts heavy artillery regiment, after which
he was engaged in the fire insurance business in
Boston. He is the author of " Genealogy of the
Everett Family" (1860), and "Genealogy of the
Cai)en Family," published in the " New England
Historical and Genealogical Register " (1866).
Since 1882 he has been engaged in preparing the
two works for publication in book form.
EVERETT, Erastus, educator, b. in Princeton,
Mass., in 1813. He was graduated at Dartmouth
in 1836, and from 1840 till 1843 was professor of
English history at Jefferson college, St. James
parish. La. In the latter year he assisted in found-
ing the Orleans high-school at New Orleans, and
in 1849 became its principal. The school was
chartered as a college in 1854, and he served as its
president till 1855. From that year until 1875 he
taught a select school at Brooklyn, N. Y., and for
the four years following was professor of Greek
and Latin in Rutgers female college. He is the
author of "A System of English Versification"
(New York, 1848), and " Progress," a poem.
EVERETT, Horace, congressman, b. in Ver-
mont in 1780 ; d. in Windsor, Vt., 30 Jan., 1851. He
was graduated at Brown in 1797, studied law, and
practised in Windsor. He was a member of the
Vermont legislature in 1819-'30, 1822-'4, and 1834,
a prominent member of the State constitutional
convention of 1828, and in that year was elected to
congress as a Whig, serving from 1829 to 1843.
While a member of congress he was a zealous ad-
vocate of the rights of the Indians.
EVERETT, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Queen
Anne county, Md., 17 June, 1732 ; d. in Cambridge,
Md., 16 Aug., 1809. While living a licentious life
he was converted at a meeting of the followers of
Whitefield in 1763, and entered the communion of
the Presbyterian church. He was a zealous Whig,
and fought with the Maryland militia in the Revo-
lutionary war. He had grown less earnest in re-
ligious matters, when, in 1778, he was deeply im-
pressed by the preaching of Francis Asbury, united
with the Methodist church, and in 1780 became an
itinerant preacher. He was ordained a deacon in
1786, and an elder in 1788. He was presiding
elder of Cecil and neighboring circuits in 1789-'90,
and of other districts in Maryland till 1800, when
he became presiding elder in Philadelphia, and
afterward of the Delaware district. In 1804 he
became disabled for continuous labor, though he
continued to preach as a supernumerary. He was
distinguished for the boldness and directness of his
preaching, and was one of the most successful of
the early Methodist revivalists.
EVERHART, Benjamin Matlack, botanist, b.
near West Chester, Pa., 24 April, 1818. His father,
William Everhart, the son of a Revolutionary
soldier, was a merchant, and a member of congress
in 1853-'5. Benjamin was educated in private
schools in West Chester, and spent his early life in
mercantile business there and in Charleston, S. C.
From boyhood he was an ardent student of botany,
and since retiring from business in 1867 he has
devoted himself almost entirely to that science,
particularly to cryptogamic botany. In connection
with J. B. Ellis, of New Jersey, he has been active
in issuing yearly fifty volumes, called “The
Century of North American Fungi,” each volume
describing 100 species. At the same time, with W.
A. Kellerman, of Kansas, they are publishing the
“Journal of Mycology.” He is a specialist of
deserved repute in his science, has discovered many
new fungi, and several such plants have been
named for him by his fellow-scientists. — His
brother, James Bowen, author, b. near West
Chester, Pa., 26 July, 1821, was graduated at
Princeton in 1842, and studied law in West Chester,
Philadelphia, and at the Harvard law-school. After
practising law in West Chester for a few years, he
travelled extensively in Europe and the east, and
then devoted himself to literature. He was elected
to the state senate in 1876, and was re-elected in
1880, but resigned in 1883, having been chosen as a
Republican to congress, where he served in 1883-'7,
and then retired to private life. His writings,
which are marked by terseness of style, include
“Miscellanies,” in prose (West Chester, Pa,, 1862);
a volume of short poems (Philadelphia, 1868); and
“The Fox Chase,” a poem (Philadelphia, 1875).
EVERTS, Orpheus, physician, b. in Union county, Tnd., 26 Dec, 1826. His father, a physician from Vermont, was a pioneer in Indiana. Orpheus was graduated at the medical college connected with La Porte university, Ind., in 1846, practised in St. Charles, 111., and in indiana]"»olis, Ind., served as a field surgeon during the civil war, and in 1868 became superintendent of the Indiana hospital for the insane. He designed the female department in the hospital on an original plan. In 1880 he became superintendent of the Cincinnati sanitarium, a private hospital for the insane. Besides papers in medical journals, he has published "Giles & Co., or Views and Interviews concerning Civilization"
