The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-17

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curtain over the earth-life of EDWARD EVER
EFT, at his residence in Boston, on Sunday
morning at four O'Clock. He had been slight
Iy III of cold for few days, but no fears
were awakened either in his own mind or
that OF his friends. he passed suddenly,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams"
Mr.. Everett was born in Dorchester, Mass,
April II, 1894, and at the time of his death
wac in the list year of uis age. His prepare
tory studies were pursued at the Latin School
in Boston, and at Phillips Academy at Exeter,
N. 81. In 1907 he entered Harvard College,
when just entered upon his fourteenth year,
and was the yougest ofhis class. He gradu-
ated with the highest honors in 1911, and at
once commenced the study orthodoxy. In
1918, at the age of nineteen years, he became
pastor Of Brattle Street (Unitarian) church,
and two years later was called to the chair of
the professorship of Greek, then recently es-
tablished in Harvard College by Mr.. Samuel
Elliot Accepting the invitation, he made his
first visit to Europe to prepare for his new du :
ties, and In company with Professor Tlcknor
went at once to Gottingen, they being proba
bly, the first Americans to resort to German
university. Returning to America in 1919, af-
ter long coures Of study and travel, in which
he had made the personal acquaintance of
Scott, Byron, Jeffery, Macintosh. Romilly
and others, he entered uponhi professorship,
where he gave in the next four years an i'm
pulse to the study of Greek literature In
America which is not yet lost.
9 In 1922 Mr. Everett married a daughter of
the late Peler G. Brooks. Three sons and one
daughter were the fruit of this marriage, all of
whom, with the exception of one son. survive
8 While Professor of Greek, Mr.. Everett, be-
sides translating Buttman's Greek Grammar,
aided the general cause of letters by his nu-
merous contributions to the North American
Review, of which he was editor. The most
marked event of this period Of his life, how
ever, was his Phi Beta Kappa Grafton in 1924,
with its celebrated apostrophe to La Fayette,
then present, which first strongly lxed the
eye of the country upon his high claims as an
orator.
1t was perhaps in part a consequence of the
( effect produced by this mastery piece of ora
tory, that by the spontaneous action of the
constituency Mr.. Everett was elected to Con-
gressa at the election in 1924, and, leaving his
academic pursuits, entered upon new and
m IRE public career as u statesman. He took
his seat in the House of Representatives in
1926, as supporter of Mr.. Adams, and served
there for ten years, taking from the first ahigh
position in that distinguished bodyqeqy
81 In 1925 Mr.. Everett was elected Governor Of
Massachusetts,, and held that office for the four
years following.
Losing his reelection by a single vote in
4 1888, Mr.. Everett sailed for Europe thesecond
time in June 1910, with his family, and passed
a winter 10, Italy. General Harrison's election
however, brought Mr.. Webster into the de.
partment of State, and Mr.. Everett was ap
pointed minister at the court Of st. James.
On his return from Europe in lS46 he was
/ elected 70 the Presidency of Harvard College
as successor Of the veher able Josiah Quincy
This position he held for three years. In 1852
by the death Of Mr.. Webster, Mr.. Everett was
called by President Fillmore to succeed hin
ia the State Department.
In 1858 he took his seat as q member of the
is. Senate, which seat he resigned, on &C
count of illhealth, in 1854
The great work which he performed in the
next few years, when with infrm bodily pow
ers he labored necessarily Tor the Mount Yer
non fund, is fresh in the minds of al. The
sum realized by his efforts for this noble objec'
/ was little less than one hundred thousand dol
lars. ,s-v -
= In 1850, contrary to his own inclination Nj
Everett was madea candidate once more fol
j public office, being nominated for Vice Presi
dent on the ticket headed by Mr.. Bell Of Ten
sesee. The Arst movement towards secession
however, crime against which he had con
tended with effect while in Congress, brought
him to the support of the new administration
No voice sounded more sclearly,or powerfully
for the government and. the Uaion than his
In those days in 1851 when the patriotism O
all men was tried; and no man, we venture to
say, gave to the government support which
considering the authority of his name both al
home and abroad, could have been 50 i'll
spared. A1'AAA iA'A1A'A saA4AA s-A
A short time before his death, says the Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser, from which we have
condensed the foregoing, Mr.. Everett had pre-
pared for publication a full account of the re-
markable subscription made through him fol
the relief Of the starving people of East Ten
nessee,-a benifcent movement, which owed
its wonderful success mainly to his efforts.
1t is touching and beautiful circumstance
and perpetual, memorial of his zeal inlor.
warding any work which promised to allevi.
ate misfortune and suffering, that his last pub
lie appearance, the last occasion on which
those sweet cadenees were heard by his fellow
citizens, was at the meeting in Faneuil Hal
on Monday last for the relief of the people
! of Savannah. There he spoke for the last
time, his matches oratory in It's prime, his
command of the respect and admiration Of
his fellow. citizens at its highest point, his
life finished and full of honors, and his Chris.
tiau character ripe and ready for the harvest
The rich cargoes already speeding on their
way toBthe suffering city, attest the efficacy
with which he urged his countrymen to bury
the resentments Of civil war at the frat sign
oof returning loyalty, to forget past misdeeds,
and to remember only the present claim Of hu.
mainly.
To those who heard him on that occasion he
seemed to exhibit more than hts usual ANNA
ton, and his face was free from the express
sion of subdued suffering which has too often
marked It, Upon his return home,s however
after day Of iatiguing engagements, he was
obliged to summon his physician, and did moi
again leave his house, suffering from a seri-
| Gus oppression of the lungs He slept we'll
through Saturday night, until shortly after