James Bowen Everhart

James B. Everhart was born in West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania[1] to William Everhart and Hannah (Matlack) Everhart.[2] He attended Bolmar's Academy in West Chester and graduated from Princeton College in 1842. He studied law at Harvard University and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and went abroad and spent two years in study at the Universities of Berlin and Edinburgh. He returned to West Chester and engaged in the practice of law. During the American Civil War, Everhart served in Company B, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 19th district from 1876 to 1882.[3]

Everhart was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886. He resumed the practice of law and died in West Chester in 1888. Interment in Oaklands Cemetery, in West Chester.[4]

His writings, which are marked by terseness of style, include Miscellanies, in prose (West Chester, Pa, 1862); a volume of short poems (Philadelphia, 1868); and "The Fox Chase," a poem (Philadelphia, 1875).[5]

His grandfather, James Everhart, was a soldier in the U.S. Army during the American Revolutionary War. His father William was a successful merchant in West Chester, Pennsylvania and a U.S. Congressman.[2] His brother Benjamin Matlack Everhart was a noted mycologist.

• United States Congress. "James Bowen Everhart (id: E000270)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-02-14
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• "James Bowen Everhart". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2008-10-30.