[2][3] He attended Bolmar's Academy in West Chester and graduated from Princeton College in 1842.

He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and went abroad, spending two years in study at the Universities of Berlin and Edinburgh.

During the American Civil War, Everhart served in Company B, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia.

[3][5] His grandfather, James Everhart, was a soldier in the U.S. Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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