CDV of Edward Everett Spoke Before Lincoln at Gettysburg

CDV of Edward Everett Spoke Before Lincoln at Gettysburg
Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on April 11, 1794. Everett attended Boston Latin School in 1805, and then briefly Phillips Exeter Academy. At the age of 13, he was admitted to Harvard College. In 1811, at age 17, he graduated as the valedictorian of his class.
During his long and varied life Everett served as a Pastor and then a teacher at Harvard where one of his students was Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was also a writer and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Governor of Massachusetts and in the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, as US Ambassador to Great Britain, president of Harvard College, Secretary of State and in his last years as an orator.
Everett died on January 15, 1865 and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.