American journalist, the nephew of the patriot-martyr Nathan, and the father of Edward Everett; born in Westhampton, MA, on the 16th of August 1784; graduated at Williams College 1804; was admitted to the Boston bar in 1810, and in 1814 became an editor of the Boston Weekly Messenger. The same year he purchased the Boston Daily Advertiser, and continued as its chief editor until his death. He was a founder of the North American Review in 1815, and of the Christian Examiner in 1828, and in 1840 he edited and published the Monthly Chronicle. He was for nineteen years president of the Boston and Worcester railroad, the first company in New England to use steam-power, and in 1846 was chairman of the commission for building water-works for Boston. He was at various times a member of the legislature, and held important offices in various literary organizations. He published numerous plans and maps of his own design, also the Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1821). He died in Brookline, MA, on the 9th of February 1863.
