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Day
16
Month
March
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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EVEREST- In this city on the 2d inst., Mr, Elizabeth Everest, ag.-d 72 yers and 2 tnonths. Mrs. Everest was born iu Cambridge, N. Y., and removed from Peru, Clinton Co., N. Y., to this city, in 1836, witli hei husband, John D. Everest, who died uere in 1IW9. hor over Ul'ty y ra ra ibe had been a comstotont membor of the M. E. Church. A lartj clrcle uf fiieiida üyinimtlii.i' wiüi her bo. reaviHl sons and daughters- four of wlxmi re ro ik'iïts of thl city. WILSON- in Denver, Colorado, l-lni.iry i, 1H77, William Maynard Wilson, aged twonty-thres y('ar. Mr. Wllaon grnduated in the School of Pharmacy ot'thc l'nivcnity, in 1870, and beforethe doeo ofthat yrar ontord upon the pracUoe of pbaraiay in SI.. Louis, Mo. In the fall of 1X72 nis linlt l ulied, and by medical adrice In1 weul to Colorido. Heve iiis healtta iras raucta better fora linio, bui. he u'vor reoovered aufflclentljr to malte it safe i" come Sast. }[■ was abln, howeTor, to bs aotWoly engased In solentlflo wock, botb ln-4oors and ouWloow and during his l'our yrars resldaaoe iu OOloradO hc aooompUahed an amount of work wbioh would lavo done credit to a mau in gmxl licalth. BeatdeS being souicwhat eugaged iu chemkal study, he uuderiook aud couiiiluUid a collection of the planta "f Colorado Torrüory, conductingexchangi1 wil h 1ü)Iiiiiisin different part of the country. Ai tho time oí his death he had an herbarium of ovei three thoasand specimens, all determlned and mounted, a portiim of irhtoh bad lon obtained IroTii corresponden ts. The colIecUon represente vor Ten taundred varietles in the flora of Colorado. The Identification of the specimens reoelved in exchange, dry, and sometlmea rautllated, was oftenatask of much difficully and dcday. Mr. Wllaon completen1 the mountlng of his herbarium two weeks before his death. llo bad abo been enKaged In readlng medicine, with the view of ■nialfyins for that profession. Notwlthstandlng tl' oarnestness of his pursuits and purposes in the present llfe, the end found him ready U dpart content in the christian failh. Aun Arbor. March 12, 1877.