This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EVERETT, MORRIS, BARLOW, HOWARD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cl.2ADI/872 Message Board Post: Francis M. Everett, M.D., is the oldest practicing physician in Corydon. He was born in Mason County, Virginia, in 1840, and when but a year old his father, Rev. Warren D. Everett, a Baptist clergyman, removed with his family to Monroe County, Missouri, where he lived seven years, and in 1848 located in Marion County, Iowa. Warren D. Everett was a native of the State of New York, and when a young man married Pantha J. Morris. He entered the ministry of the Baptist church when twenty-one years of age. His wife died in 1851 and her sickness and death directed his attention to the study of the nature, cause and cure of disease, which resulted in his adoption of the medical art as a profession, although he never gave up his ministerial duties. His medical practice began in 1854, and in 1856 he removed to Wayne County and located in Corydon in the spring of 1864, where he died the following year. He was a man of excellent literary attainments, having been through life a har! d student. He was possessed of good judgement and great perceptive powers which enabled him to readily discriminate between the true and the false, and was withal a worthy and valuable citizen. Francis M. Everett began the study of medicine with his father in the spring of 1861, and graduated from the Keokuk Medical College in February, 1864. He soon after formed a partnership with his father which continued until svered by the latter's death. Dr. Everett has for many years had an extensive practice and has attained a high rank in his profession. In the earlier days, when physicians were less numerous than now, his practice extended over a large area of country, and many horseback rides has he taken, miles from home, on dark and stormy nights and in the cold and gloom of winter, to minister to the suffering of the sick. The Doctor is a member of the Iowa State Medical Society, the Des Moines Valley Medical Society and is President of the Wayne County Medical Society. D! r. Everett was married in November, 1861, to Fidelia C. Barlow, a native of Ohio, born in 1845. They have had five children, four of whom are living-Burrus E.; Blanche, wife of E. J. Howard, of Centerville, Iowa; Claud and Maud. Their eldest child died at the age of nine months. Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties P-281 Interstate Publishing Co Chicago 1886