Benjamin Matlack Everhart (April 24, 1818 – September 22, 1904) was an American mycologist from West Chester, Pennsylvania.
His father, William Everhart, the son of a Revolutionary soldier, was a merchant, and a member of congress in 1853–55.
[1] Benjamin was educated in private schools in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and spent his early life in mercantile business there and in Charleston, South Carolina, making a comfortable fortune.
At the same time, with William A. Kellerman, of Kansas, they published the Journal of Mycology.
[5] A large portion of his estate was left to his cousin Isaiah Fawkes Everhart.