EVE
EVERETT
Charles O'Conor, counsel for the state of Vir-
ginia (1857-60); the Parrish will contest, and
that of Mrs. Gardner, mother of President Tyler's
wife. He was counsel for the government in es-
tablishing before the supreme court the right of
the government to condemn as prizes captured
vessels according to the laws of war (1863); he
maintained the unconstitutionality of state laws
taxing U.S. bonds or national bank stock with-
out the authorization of congress (1865-66); and
was senior counsel for Henry Ward Beecher
(1874-75). His public addre.sses include: eulogy
on Chief-Justice Chase at Dartmouth college,
1873; the Centennial oration in Philadelphia,
1876; and orations at the unveiling of the statues
of William H. Seward and of Daniel Webster in
New York city and of the Bartholdi statue of
Liberty on Bedloe's island. New York harbor.
He was a fellow of Yale corporation, 1873-91,
an<l received from Yale the degree of A.M. in 1840
and that of LL.D. in 1865. He also received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from Union in 1857
and from Harvard in 1870. He was an honorary
member of the Massachusetts historical society
and of other learned organizations. He was an
original trustee of the Peabody education fund,
appointed in 1867 and in 1899 was president of
the board and the last living member of the
original board of trustees. Of his four sons,
Allen Wardner, Yale, 1869, Columbia. LL.B.,
1871; Sherman. Yale. 1881; and Maxwell, Yale,
1884, became practising lawyers in New York
city; and Prescott, Harvard, 1881, General theo-
logical seminary. New York city, S.T.B., 1887,
became rector of Wappinger's Falls, N.Y. He
died in New York city, Feb. 38, 1901.
EVE, Paul Fitzsimmons, surgeon, was born in Richmond county, (iu., June 27, 1806; son of Oswell and Aphra Ann Eve; and a cousin of Dr. Joseph Adams Eve, professor of obstetrics in the Georgia medical college, Augusta. Paul was graduated at Franklin college (Uni- versity of Georgia) in 1826, and from the medi- cal department of the University of Penn.syl- vania in 1828. He was in Europe, 1828-31, and besides hospital prac- tice in Paris and Lon- don served as ambu- lance surgeon in the French revolution of 1830, and as regimental surgeon in the insurrec- tionary war in Poland the same year. He was elected professor of surgery in the Medical col-
lege of Georgia at its organization in 1833, in Au
gusta, and served until 1849. He succeeded Prof
S. D. Gross to the chair of surgery in the Uni-
versity of Louisville in 1849, and in 1850 became
professor of surgery in the newly established
University of Nashville. He removed to St. Louis,
Mo., in 1868, to accept the chair of surgery in the
University of Missouri, but was obliged to resign
for climatic causes. He filled the chair of oper-
ative and clinical surgeiy in the University of
Nashville until 1877, when he became professor of
surgery in the Nashville medical college. He was
made surgeon-general of the Confederate army in
1861, andserved on the medical examination board
and with the army in the battles of Shiloli and
Columbus, and at Atlanta and Augusta. His
reputation as a surgeon was world-wide, and he
introiiuced methods never before known to surgi-
cal science in America. He was president of the
American medical association in 1857 and of the
Tennessee state medical society in 1870. He
edited the Southern Medical and Siirgical Journal
and the Nashville Medical and tim-gical Journal.
Among his six hundred articles published in book
form, pamphlets or in medical journals, are;
Itemarkable Cases in Surgery (1857); One Hundred
Cases of Lithotomy in the Transactions of the Amer-
ican medical association for 1870; WTiat the South
and West have done for American Surgery; and re-
ports of twenty amputations and thirteen resec-
tions at the hip-joint performed by Confederate
surgeons, contributed to the Medical History of
the War. He died in Nashville, Term., Nov. 3, 1877.
EVEREST, Harvey William, educator, was
born in North Hudson, N.Y., Jlay 10, 1831; son of
William B. and Lydia (Smith) Everest. He was
educated in Ohio, at Geauga seminary. Western
Reserve eclectic institute, Bethany college, and
was graduated from Oberlin college in 1861. He
was president of Eureka college, 1804-73 and
1877-81; professor of sacred history in Kentucky
university, 1874-76; president of Butler univer-
sity, 1881-86; chancellor of Garfleld imiversity,
1886-90; regent of the Southern Illinois state nor-
mal university, Carbondale. 1893-97, and dean of
Bible college, Drake miiversity, from 1897. He
received the degree of LL. D. He is the author of
Tlie Divine Demonstration — a Text-hook of Christian
Evidence; and Tlo- Xciu h'llnca/ion.
EVERETT, Alexander Hill, diplomati.st, was born in Boston, Mass., March 19, 1790; son of the Rev. Oliver and Lucy (Hill) Everett; grand- son of Ebeuezer and Joanna (Stevens) Everett. and an elder brother of Edward Everett. His father was pastor of the New South church in Boston, 1782-92. Alexander was graduated at Harvard in 1806, the youngest member and hon- or-man of the class. He then taught in Philliiis Exeter academy, 1807, studied law in the office of
