W. F. Everhart ¹

  General Notes:

W.F. EVERHART, farmer, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Highland Township, Adams Co., Penn., December 15, 1849, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Miller) Everhart, natives of York County, Penn., and of German descent. Jacob Everhart, who had been a shoe-maker through life, was the father of eight children, of whom W.F. is the fifth. Our subject was reared on a farm, receiving his education in the common schools of Adams County, and chose agricultural pursuits as an occupation, at which he has been employed since he was thirteen years old, and is now the owner of a farm of 100 acres. In 1880 he was married to Elizabeth Bream, daughter of Francis Bream, who was a man of some prominence, being at one time sheriff of Adams County. He was a farmer, and succeeded in accumulating considerable property, giving to each of his three sons the farms on which they reside, located in Cumberland Township. To our subject and wife have been born three children: Bessie May, Blanche Elizabeth and M. Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Everhart are members of St. James's Lutheran Church in Gettysburg. In politics he is a Democrat.

W. married Elizabeth Bream, daughter of Francis Bream and Elizabeth Slaybaugh, in 1880.