Elizabeth Hawley Everett

{{Infobox officeholder

| office = Superintendent of schools,
Highland Park, Illinois

| termend = 1898

| termstart = 1894

| name = Elizabeth Hawley Everett

| image = Elizabeth Hawley Everett ("Illinois Club Bulletin", Oct. 1909).png

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| birth_name = Elizabeth Caldwell Wilkey Hawley

| birth_date = August 23, 1857

| birth_place = Pekin, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = September 6, 1940

| death_place = Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.

| resting_place = Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|clubwoman|suffragist|author|newspaper founder, editor|school principal|superintendent of schools}}

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| alma_mater = University of Nebraska

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| parents = {{hlist|William Caldwell Hawley|Mary Shuah (Nason) Hawley}}

| spouse = {{hlist|{{marriage|James Albert Bowen|1881|1885|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Francis Dennison Everett|1899|1937|end=died}} }}

| children = George Hawley Bowen

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Elizabeth Hawley Everett ({{nee}}, Hawley; after first marriage, Bowen; after second marriage, Everett; August 23, 1857 – September 6, 1940) was an American clubwoman, suffragist, and author. She served as a school principal and a superintendent of schools, and later, was a newspaper founder and editor. She published Hawley and Nason ancestry including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson in 1929.

Early life and education

Elizabeth Caldwell Wilkey Hawley was born in Pekin, Illinois, August 23, 1857. Her parents were William Caldwell Hawley (1830-1918) and Mary Shuah (Nason) Hawley (1829-1909).{{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=John W. |title=Woman's Who's who of America |date=1914 |publisher=American Commonwealth Company |page=280 |edition=Public domain |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Woman%27s_who%27s_who_of_America,_1914-15.djvu/268 |language=en}} {{source-attribution}} Her siblings were: Martha Nason, William Norman, George Appleton, Gideon Leonard, and Nathaniel Nason.

She was educated in the schools of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, including the Mt. Pleasant Ladies' Seminary. She also attended the University of Nebraska.

Career

She served as principal of the Everett and Prescott Schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1887–94. In 1894–98, she was the superintendent of schools of Highland Park, Illinois. Everett was also active in Bible school work.

For fifteen years, she stood for equal suffrage and spoke for it frequently. She was a member of the American Com. YWCA, 1901–06; vice-president, Highland Park Public Library Board, and was a member of the board from 1904; recording secretary, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association; president, Ossoli Club of Highland Park, 1900–02; vice-president, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, 1906–08; president, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, 1908–10; General Federation of Women's Clubs (secretary, Illinois), 1910–12.

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Everett founded the Illinois Club Bulletin in 1909, as the official organ of the board of directors of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs,{{cite journal |last1=Everett |first1=Mrs. Francis D. |journal=The Federation Bulletin |date=1909 |publisher=Illinois State Association of Graduade Nurses |page=109 | volume=6-7 |edition=Public domain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhYkAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 |access-date=22 December 2021 |language=en |title=What the State Federations are Doing. Illinois. By Mrs. Francis D. Everett.}} {{source-attribution}} and edited it three years.

She was the author of Hawley and Nason ancestry including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson. (Chicago, R.F. Seymour, 1929){{cite book |title=The Magazine of American Genealogy |date=1932 |publisher=Institute of American Genealogy |page=1641 |volume=22-27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWlbAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA1641 |language=en}}

Personal life

She was twice married. First, on September 13, 1881, at Lincoln, Nebraska, she married James Albert Bowen (b. 1849); they divorced in 1885. Their only child was George Hawley Bowen (1882-1926).{{cite book |last1=Everett |first1=Elizabeth Hawley |title=Hawley and Nason ancestry, including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson |date=1929 |publisher=R.F. Seymour |location=Chicago |pages=21–22 |url=https://archive.org/details/hawleynasonances00ever/page/22/mode/2up?q=bowen |access-date=22 December 2021}}{{cite news |title=Word has been received |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/314002745/?terms=George%20Hawley%20Bowen&match=1 |access-date=22 December 2021 |work=The Nebraska State Journal |via=Newspapers.com |date=14 January 1926 |page=7 |language=en}}

Second, on March 2, 1899, she married Francis Dennison Everett (1839-1937),{{cite news |title=Marriage licenses have been granted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/333750968/?terms=elizabeth%20hawley%20bowen&match=1 |access-date=22 December 2021 |work=The Nebraska State Journal |via=Newspapers.com |date=3 March 1899 |page=6 |language=en }} a businessman of Chicago.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Elizabeth Hawley Bowen was married |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/309381158/?terms=elizabeth%20hawley%20bowen&match=1 |access-date=22 December 2021 |work=Lincoln Journal Star |via=Newspapers.com |date=3 March 1899 |page=5 |language=en }}

In religion, she was Presbyterian.

Death and legacy

Elizabeth Hawley Everett died September 6, 1940,{{cite web |title=Everett, Elizabeth Hawley, 1857-1940 |url=https://snaccooperative.org/view/1471101#resources |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher=Social Networks and Archival Context |access-date=22 December 2021}} at Highland Park, Illinois, and was buried at Hawley Plot, Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska.{{cite book |last1=Hawley |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Olden Time: Stories for Betty |date=4 October 2005 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=978-1-4691-1106-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXr5AAAAQBAJ |access-date=22 December 2021 |language=en}}

Her stories, records, and reflections were posthumously gathered in The olden time : stories for Betty, by Elizabeth Hawley Everett, Amanda Carson Bank, and Diane Banks (Philadelphia : Xlibris, 2005).

Selected works

Hawley and Nason ancestry including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson., 1929