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John Everett

(1801-1826)
Massachusetts

John Everett was born at Dorchester and graduated at Cambridge in 1818. He served as a tutor at Transylvania University and minister to the Netherlands. Returning to the United States, Everett studied law, was admitted to the bar, and died young.

[Source: Samuel Kettel, 3 Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices 55 (New York: Benjamin Blom 1967)(1829)] [online text]

John Everett
James Spear Loring (ed.), The One Hundred Boston Orators Appointed by the Municipal Authorities and Other Public Bodies, From 1770 to 1852 407
(Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853)