Jeremiah Evarts, c. 1817 Oil on canvas painting by Samuel Morse
Born
(1781-02-03)February 3, 1781
Sunderland, Vermont, U.S.
Died
May 10, 1831(1831-05-10) (aged 50)
Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Known for
19th-century missionary work, opponent of Indian Removal Act
Parent
James Evarts (father)
Jeremiah F. Evarts (February 3, 1781 – May 10, 1831), also known by the pen name William Penn, was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.
great influence on U.S. public affairs. Jeremiah and Mehitabel Sherman Evarts were the parents of William M. Evarts, who later became a United States Secretary...
Evarts can refer to: Edward Evarts (1926–1985), American neuroscientist JeremiahEvarts (1781–1831), Christian missionary, reformer and activist for the...
1810–1811. Mehitabel (Sherman) Barnes Evarts, wife of JeremiahEvarts, became the mother of William Maxwell Evarts, a United States Attorney General, Secretary...
missionaries protested against it, most notably missionary organizer JeremiahEvarts. In Congress, New Jersey Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen, Kentucky Senator...
1810. JeremiahEvarts, corresponding secretary of the ABCFM from 1821 to 1831 At the 1822 annual meeting, board members elected officers: Evarts as corresponding...
architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout. Evarts Tracy (1868–1922) was the son of first cousins JeremiahEvarts Tracy and Martha Sherman...
Maxwell Evarts (November 15, 1862 – October 7, 1913) was an American lawyer and politician. Maxwell Evarts was born on November 15, 1862, in New York City...
march, which is known as the Trail of Tears. Missionary organizer JeremiahEvarts urged the Cherokee Nation to take its case to the U.S. Supreme Court...
short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer William Penn JeremiahEvarts 19th-century activist against Indian removal Willibald Alexis Georg...
minority the control of the government. These led to his being invited by JeremiahEvarts and others to found a weekly religious newspaper, to which he gave...
Dellinger (B.A. 1936), conscientious objector, member of the Chicago Seven JeremiahEvarts (B.A. 1802), author, editor, activist, opponent of the Indian Removal...
ISBN 0-2311-2154-7. Andrew, John A. III (1992). From Revivals to Removal: JeremiahEvarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America. Athens...
religious monthly magazine printed from 1805 until 1820 edited by JeremiahEvarts. The Panoplist; or, The Christian Armory (1805-1808). Panoplist and...
February 1830, married George B. Little in 1850, and had two daughters. JeremiahEvarts Cornelius, born 25 December 1831, married Sarah Fenner Storrs (daughter...
Present State of the Unitarian Churches of America), attributed to JeremiahEvarts, was published in The Panoplist in June 1815. Channing objected to...
from Georgia. William Ely 1787 U.S. Representative from Massachusetts JeremiahEvarts 1802 Missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of Native Americans...
Ancestry tree and several relatives: Roger Sherman Mehetabel (Sherman) Evarts ... Mary Evarts (1806–1850): 301–307 : married David Greene (1797–1866), secretary...
Pierpont Edwards (1750–1826), Delegate to the Continental Congress. JeremiahEvarts (1781–1831), scholar, writer and missionary executive. Editor of the...
Elizabeth Follansbee, the niece of Senator William Maxwell Evarts, the granddaughter of JeremiahEvarts and the great-great-granddaughter of founding father...
States Constitution. His mother, Mary Evarts, was a daughter of JeremiahEvarts and a sister of William M. Evarts, US Secretary of State, US Attorney General...
as only temporary refuge, however. A Mrs. Newton later related to JeremiahEvarts that after she shut her door "she dared not open it, for fear of seeing...
general in the American revolution Jacob Estey, organ manufacturer JeremiahEvarts, missionary and reformer; born in Sunderland Franklin Fairbanks, political...
children survived him. He was the great nephew of William M. Evarts, great-grandson of JeremiahEvarts and the great-great-grandson of Roger Sherman. His father...
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