Everett, William 1839-1910 FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 1 of 2 08 FirstSearch SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV WorldCat Detailed Record Click on a checkbox to mark a record to be e-mailed or printed in Marked Records. Staff View Options Comments Exit Home Databases Searching Results Hide tips List of Records Detailed Record Marked Records Go to page TYT WorldCat results for: ti: thursday WorldCat Subjects Libraries E-mail Print Export Help and ti: evening and ti: club. Record 13 of 82. 13 Mark: Prev Next Man and monarch : a poem delivered before the Thursday Evening Club, 19 February, 1903, at the house of Mrs. Isabella (Stewart) Gardner / William Everett Note: f. B. DORR is 1903 English Book 11 p. ; 20 cm. a Thursday Evening Boston : Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, Club member in 1907 GET THIS ITEM Availability: Check the catalogs in your library. 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Language: English http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=sp07...: numrecs= 4/19/2004 3/20/2020 Everett, Edward (1846-1849) | Harvard Square Library ARVARD Custom Search QUARE BRARY A DIGITAL LIBRARY OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORY, BOOKS, AND MEDIA Collections About HSL Related Organizations Contact Donate Offers General Assembly Minutes Everett, Edward (1846-1849) POSTED ON JULY 29, 2012 BY EMILY MACE Edward Everett (1794-1865) was President of Harvard University from February 5, Collectio: 1846, to February 1, 1849. He was also a Unitarian clergyman, teacher, statesman, and a renowned American orator. Early Life BIOGRAPHIE Edward Everett was born to the Reverend Oliver Everett and Lucy (Hill) Everett on April 11, 1794. As a boy, Everett read extensively in his father's large library, reading the works of Shakespeare, Hume, Tillotson, and Shaftesbury before he was 8 and years old. In 1804, Everett attended the Webster SPECIAL FEA School and was taught by Daniel Webster. Everett was to maintain a personal and professional relationship with Webster for the rest of his life. From 1805 to 1807 Everett went to the Boston Latin School and the Phillips Exeter Academy. As a young student, Everett earned several medals for outstanding scholarship. HISTORIES In 1807, Everett entered Harvard University at the age of thirteen, the youngest member of his class. Edward Everett, President of During his college years, Everett was acknowledged by peers and faculty as a serious Harvard University from 1846- scholar. He spent his student years as a tutor 1849. giving Latin instruction (1812-1814), studying theology and foreign languages, and writing for WORSHIP student publications. After graduation (A.B. 1811, A.M. 1814), Everett followed in his father's footsteps and became the pastor of the Brattle Street Church. He was quickly recognized as a powerful speaker and orator, but Everett soon abandoned the ministry for a teaching position at Harvard University. Later in life, Everett admitted that he had accepted the Brattle Street ministry at too early an age and without enough life experience to minister properly to his congregation. DENOMINAT < Everett's teaching arrangement with Harvard University was unique. He was allowed to ADMINISTRA travel and study in Europe for two years, at full salary, before accepting his new duties. Everett studied 12 to 14 hours a day at the University of Göttingen in Germany. He became well-read in Greek, Latin, French, German, and Italian. He explored Roman law and P age Biographical Directory of the EVERETT, William, 1839-1910 United States Congress EVERETT, William, (son of Edward Everett), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Watertown, Middlesex County, Mass., October 10, 1839; attended the public schools of Cambridge and Boston; was graduated from Harvard University in 1859, from Trinity College, Cambridge University, England, in 1863, and from the law department of Harvard University in 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1866; studied for the ministry, and was licensed to preach in 1872 by the Suffolk Association of Unitarian Ministers; tutor in 1774 Present Harvard University 1870-1873; assistant professor of Latin 1873- 1877; master of Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass., 1878-1893; Biography elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge and served from Research Collections April 25, 1893, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for Bibliography renomination in 1894; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Search Massachusetts in 1897; master of school at Quincy, Mass., where he died February 16, 1910; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, House History Page Cambridge, Mass. Senate History Page Copyright Information pp://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000269 3/16/2004 Biographical Directory of the EVERETT, William, 1839-1910 United States Congress Guide to Research Collections Boston Public Library Boston, MA Papers: 1 letter. Brooklyn Historical Society 1774 K Present Brooklyn, NY Papers: n.d. Lecture read before Long Island Historical Society. Biography Finding aid in repository. Research Collections Bibliography Library of Congress Manuscript Division New Search Washington, DC House History Page Papers: In Edward Everett papers (microfilm), 1675-1930. 70 reels. Originals held by Massachusetts Historical Society. Published guide. Senate History Page Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, MA Papers: In Edward Everett papers, 1675-1930. Also on microfilm (70 reels). Published guide. Papers: In William Royall Tyler papers, 1813-1896. ca. 200 items. Include letters from Everett describing congressional activity. Unpublished guide in library. New-York Historical Society New York, NY Papers: July 13, 1868; June 2, 1894. 2 letters. Finding aid in repository. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=E000269 3/16/2004 FirstSearch: Libraries that Own Item Page 1 of 2 FirstSearch SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV Libraries that Own Item This screen shows libraries that own the item you selected. Staff View Options Comments Exit Home Databases Searching Results Hide tips List of Records Detailed Record Marked Records Go to page Current database: WorldCat Total Libraries: 1 WorldCat E-mail Print Return Help Title: William Everett papers Author: Everett, William Libraries with Item: "William Everett papers, " ( Record for Item I Get This Item ) Location Library Code MA MASSACHUSETTS HIST SOC MAH Record for Item: "William Everett papers, " ( Libraries with Item ) GET THIS ITEM Androd Availability: Check the catalogs in your library. Libraries worldwide that own item: 1 FIND RELATED More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author Advanced options Find Items About: Everett, William, (max: 6); Everett family. (92) Title: William Everett papers, 1844-1910. Author(s): Everett, William, 1839-1910. ; Everett family. Year: 1844-1910 Description: 9 boxes, 1 folder, and 1 vol. PARTIALLY PROCESSED Language: English Abstract: Papers of teacher and historian William Everett kept while a student at Harvard, professor of Latin at Harvard, and master at Adams Academy in Quincy, Mass., 1844-1910. Contains family and personal correspondence including letters on the death of his father Edward Everett in 1865; miscellaneous writings including a children's book written in 1853; and clippings concerning his writings Also includes a Greek exercise book tynescrints of http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=holdings:next=html/holdings.html:b. : 4/21/2004 Vita: Edward Everett Page 1 of 3 HARVARD MAGAZINE Published on Harvard Magazine (http://harvardmagazine.com) Vita: Edward Everett [71], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 Encyclopaedia Britannica.) (Engraving by J.C. Buttre/Library of Congress )"> Engraving by J.C. Buttre/Library of Congress J.C. Buttre's portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see "Granny Talk" [8]], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 Encyclopaedia Britannica.) 0 0 0 EMAIL Tweet Like [9] Keywords Edward Everett [10] Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865 http://harvardmagazine.com/print/42901?page=all 11/19/2013 Vita: Edward Everett Page 2 of 3 Castle Freeman Jr. [s] History has not been kind to Edward Everett. A preeminent public man of the nineteenth century, brilliant and honored, he is today too often relegated to a supporting role: it was Everett whose 13,000-word oration, delivered at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the climactic battle of the Civil War, was forever upstaged by Abraham Lincoln's roughly 270-word Gettysburg Address, 150 years ago this November 19. But for Americans in the decades before the war, only Daniel Webster outranked Everett as an inspiring speaker. When Everett stood to deliver his 50-page address at Gettysburg, he was more of an attraction for the audience of 20,000 than the president who was to follow him. Almost 70, he was admired not only for his oratory but also for his public service in an impressive variety of endeavors. The son of a retired minister and local official in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Everett was only eight when his father died. Thanks to a legacy, he was sent to Phillips Exeter and then Harvard, which he entered at 13. (In his time, he was accounted the brightest student in the history of the College.) Graduating first in the class of 1811, he went on to the Divinity School to prepare for the ministry. Not yet 20, he began to preach at Boston's Brattle Street Church, then the city's foremost. He quickly gained fame among his parishioners, but found the pulpit intellectually confining. When Harvard offered him a grant to study classical languages in Europe, SO he might take up a professorship in Greek, Everett abruptly resigned his ministry. With a scholarly friend, he left for four years of travel and study, centered on the University of Göttingen, where in 1817 he received perhaps the first Ph.D. degree ever awarded an American. Once back from Europe, Everett embarked on a headlong career of public achievement that continued for more than 30 years. When he quickly grew bored teaching Greek grammar to college boys, other fields opened. His European studies had convinced him that American education needed higher standards of scholarship, which he felt well equipped to uphold. In 1822 he had married Charlotte Brooks, the daughter of a prosperous Boston financier. Relieved of the need to earn his living, Everett became editor of the North American Review, a high-minded journal of politics and culture, until 1825, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He would become, successively, governor of Massachusetts, U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, secretary of state, and U.S. senator. Everett's political career assisted, and was assisted by, his public role as an orator. His was an age of gargantuan speeches two hours or more in length, rhetorically grand and flamboyantly delivered. Everett composed his with care, memorized them, and patiently refined and rehearsed the dramatic gestures that went with them. His addresses on the battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington, and Concord were famous. He delivered his celebrated oration on George Washington, modified and updated, for more than five decades. He was serving in London in 1846 when the Harvard Overseers elected him president of the College. Everett had enjoyed his diplomatic work, but took the Harvard post despite worry that it would involve too much mundane administrative detail. In fact, his three-year tenure was a debacle; the young gentlemen ate their new president alive. He hoped to turn Harvard from a genteel academy for Greek and Latin instruction into a magisterial research institution like the German universities he had admired 30 years earlier. Instead he was beset by unending tasks both trivial and distasteful, especially disciplinary. "Nominally the head of a great literary institution, I find my self in reality the justice of a police court..., he wrote. He was burned in effigy, his office set afire, his prim demeanor mercilessly pilloried. By 1847 he had decided to resign; in 1849, he did. In 1852 he became (briefly) President Millard Fillmore's secretary of state. In the turbulent politics of his time, Everett was a pragmatic Whig, a moderate nationalist, who hoped by negotiation and compromise to preserve the constitutional union despite the widening fissure over the future of slavery in the expanding republic. By 1854, when he retired from politics, his party had broken up over abolition, and the nation seemed headed ineluctably for dissolution, a course he observed with increasing http://harvardmagazine.com/print/42901?page=all 11/19/2013 Vita: Edward Everett Page 3 of 3 alarm. But when war began, he didn't hesitate to put his considerable influence, as a man of affairs and an orator, behind the Union cause. Given his fame and his association with battlefield memorials, he was the obvious choice as chief speaker at Gettysburg. He gave a history of secession and the early war years, and described the three-day battle nearly hour by hour. He praised the townspeople who succored the wounded. Unlike Lincoln, who spoke after him and conspicuously avoided the issue of war guilt, Everett squarely and bitterly blamed the Confederate leaders, contemptuously dismissing as "wretched sophistries" their philosophical defenses. Even in his lifetime, some questioned Everett's grandiose style; more recent critics have ridiculed it. But that day in Pennsylvania, he was seen to have served the embattled nation very well; his speech was accounted a great success, including by Lincoln. Everett himself may have had misgivings, though-misgivings that do him honor. It is said that mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. The day after the ceremony at Gettysburg, Everett wrote to the president. "I should be glad," he said, "if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes." Castle Freeman Jr. is a freelance writer living in Vermont. http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/11/vita-edward-everett http://harvardmagazine.com/print/42901?page=all 11/19/2013