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H. W. Everest
Harvey W. Everest was born at North Hudson, Essex county, New York, May 10, 1831. Leaving
the public schools of his native village, he continued his education at Geauga Seminary and at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (now Hiram College), Ohio; Bethany College, West Virginia, and at Oberlin College, Ohio, from which he graduated.
He had served as tutor while attending the Eclectic Institute, and immediately after his graduation became its principal, and held this position until he resigned it to accept the presidency of Eureka College in 1864. Leaving Eureka in 1872, he Served the Christian Church at Springfield two years as its pastor. In 1874 he was chosen one of the professors in Kentucky University and remained there two years. Then was pastor of the church at Normal, Illinois, one year, when he was called, in 1877, to be a second time president of Eureka
College.
This position he held till the spring of 1881, when he accepted the presidency of Butler University at Irvington, Indiana, remaining there till 1886, when he went to Wichita, Kansas, to take in hand, as Chancellor, the work of organizing Garfield University. For three years this institution seemed eminently successful, but then, on account of financial difficulties, was forced to suspend. In June, 1890, President Everest became pastor of the
church at Hutchinson, Kansas.
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For years he has contributed very largely to our current literature, both papers and magazines. In 1884 he published The Divine Demonstration—A Text-Book of Christian Evidence" which was at once adopted by our own Bible Schools, and also has recently been adopted by Center College, Danville, Kentucky, one of the leading Presbyterian colleges in the United States.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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