CLASS OF 1861

Dr. James Bradlee Everett died at his home in Everett, Mass., May 20, 1907." He had been in feeble health for some time, and the death of his wife exactly five weeks previously may have hastened the end. Doctor Everett was born in Canton, Mass., Aug. 16, 1828, and was the son of Abel and ThanKful W. (Shepard) Everett. He studied at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and later at Bridgewater, Mass., Normal School. After teaching for several years he took up the study of medicine. For ten years after graduation he practiced in Falmouth, Mass., and in 1871 removed to Everett. His active practice there continued until the spring of 1900, when he met with an accident causing the fracture of a hip, after which he attended only .to office patients. From 1872 to 1886 he was postmaster of Everett, and was for some years interested in the drug business. Doctor Everett was largely instrumental in founding the Everett Pubilc Library, in 1879, and was one of its trustees until his retirement from ill health two years since. For a number of years he was a member of the school committee, at one time being chairman. He was a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society and a member of the Palestine Lodge of Masons. He married, Jan. 1, 1862, Caroline G., daughter of William and Phebe D. (Guild) Newton of Sutton, Mass. He leaves two sons, James B. Everett, Jr.. of Everett, and Dr. Oliver A. Everett [D.M.C. 1885] of Bolton, Mass.