William Everhart

William Everhart (May 17, 1785 – October 30, 1868) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

William Everhart (father of James Bowen Everhart) was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and became a civil engineer. Everhart served in the War of 1812 as captain of a company of riflemen. He was the only passenger saved from the packet ship Albion, wrecked off the coast of Ireland in 1822. Upon his return to Pennsylvania he platted a large addition to the city of West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Everhart was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, and died in West Chester in 1868. Interment in Oakland Cemetery.

Sources

• William Everhart at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard