A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Horace Everett
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000265):
EVERETT, Horace, a Representative from Vermont; born in Foxboro, Mass., July 17, 1779; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1797; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Windsor, Vt.; prosecuting attorney for Windsor County 1813-1818; member of the State house of representatives in 1819, 1820, 1822, 1824, and again in 1834; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1828; elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses, and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth through Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1843); died in Windsor, Vt., January 30, 1851; interment in Old South Burying Ground.
"The Leverett Memorial" by Charles Edward Leverett; Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1856, p. 158 (obtained from Google Books):
Mary,(34) b. 1792, m. 1811, Hon. Horace Everett, lawyer at Windsor, and member of Congress
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Hon. Horace Everett, M. C., d. 1851, aged 72. "He was for 14 years a representative in the lower house of the National Legislature. During this time he established a reputation that cannot be overrated, and exerted an influence, the effects of which will be long felt. His labors to cause justice to be done to the Indians, are of themselves a monument to his memory."
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