Everett (Edward) is born in Dorchester.

The son of Rev. Oliver and Lucy (Hill) Everett, Edward Everett attends the Webster School, graduates from Harvard College and Divinity School, and is named ministers of the Brattle Square Church before he is 20. He becomes a professor of Greek Literature at Harvard, receives a Ph.D. in Germany, and marries Charlotte Gray Brooks. Everett serves in the U.S. House of Representatives (1825-35), as governor of Massachusetts (1836-49), Minister to England (1841-45), president of Harvard College (1846-49), U.S. Secretary of State (1852-53), and in the U.S. Senate (1853-54). A brilliant orator, he delivers an unremembered speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863.* Everett dies in Boston on January 15, 1865, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.