Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-26
DR.T.T.EVERETT DIES
At GREENCASTLE
Was a Former Pastor Of Messiah
Lutheran Church; Editor
of Note

GreencaStle, Pa, Aug. 26.-The Rev.
DR.. Thomas T. Everett, private secre-
tary under Governor Pattisons ad-
ministration and a former pastor at
Messiah Lutheran Church, Harrisburg,
died in his apartments at Hotel
Mclaughlin yesterday morning, aged
"a years. DR.. Everett was one of the
most prominent ministers in the Lu-
theran Church. For seventeen years
he was pastor of Messiah Lutheran
Church. at Harrisburg, and of Zion's
Lutheran Church, at York. He retired
from the ministry this Spring and re-
moved to Greencastle to make his
future home, the local Lutheran
Church being one of his first pas
torates. DR.. Everett was a very
attainments. The funeral services will
be held in the Lutheran Church
Thursday afternoon at o'clock, with
burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
DIR. Everett. editor. scholar and
clergyman. was born February 26.
1S40. at Peekslkill, n. Y. He was the
son of Richard John Everett, LII. D..
a prominent lawyer OF Peekskill and
widely known throughout New York.
DR. Everett was of New England an
cestry and a distant relative of Ed
ward Everett the great orator and
statesman of Massachusetts. He was
educated in the Mohawk Valley Semi
tysburg. After leaving the Mohawk
Seminary young Everett entered the
field of Journalism, being assigned to
the staff of the New York Express,
then one of the leading newspapers of
the metropolis. For several years DIR.
Everett was a special correspondent
at Albany for three of the leading
newspapers in New York city, includ-
ing the Sun, the Express and the
Journal of Commerce.
Editor at Pittsburgh
In 1865 he became city editor of the
Pittsburgh Dispatch, then the most
prominent paper in the Iron City. In
1858 DR.. Everett changed his profess
sion and took a course at the Bu-
theran Theological Seminary at Get
tysburs, displaying remarkable
knowledge of language and literature.
After leaving the seminary he was
assigned to the charge of the First
Lutheran Church of Greencastle.
Franklin county Subsequently he was
pastor at Philadelphia. Harrisburg.
Dayton, Ohio, and BROOKLYN n. Y.
While serving in charge of his congre-
CATION in Dayton he was a member of
the board of trustees of Wittenberg
College, a Lutheran institution at
Springfield, Ohio. He was also presi-
dent of the Miami Synod for two sue
cessive terms.
gate to the General Synod of the I.u-
theran Church in America During
his ministerial career he visited Eu-
rope twice and preached in some of
the leading churches of London, Paris,
Geneva, Liverpool and Dublin.
Became Private Secretary
From 1883 to 1887, although Re-
publican, DIR. Everett was the private
secretary to Robert F.. Pattison,
Democratic Governor of PENNSYLVANIA.
Visitors to the executive chamber at
Harrisburg were always treated with
the utmost courtesy and he took rank
as one of the most efficient secretaries
to any Governor of PENNSYLVANIA. Ow-
inc to his ability and knowledge of
affairs. he served as secretary of the
State Board of Pardons for a period
of four years.
After retiring from political life DR..
Everett returned to the ministry and
from 1898 to 1914 was pastor of Zion
Lutheran Church, York.
In 1881 the degree of doctor of
divinity was conferred on him by
Washington and Lee University at
Lexington, Va, whose president then
was DR.. Curtis Lee. son of Robert
p. Lee, leader of the Confederate
forces during tho Civil War