BIO:  Oliver T. EVERHART, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 63

OLIVER T. EVERHART, second son of George and Catherine Everhart, was born May 
18, 1832.  He received his preliminary education at the Manchester (Md.) 
Academy, and thus prepared himself for the Sophomore class of 1851 at Marshall 
College, at Mercersburgh, Penn.  This college was afterward removed to 
Lancaster, Penn., and being united to Franklin College, the name was changed to 
Franklin & Marshall College, and from this institution our subject was graduated 
in 1854.  He read medicine under Dr. Henry E. Beltz, of Manchester, Md., and 
attended medical lectures at the University of Maryland, from which he graduated 
in 1856.  The same year he located in Goldsboro, York County, and began the 
practice of his profession.  During the late war Dr. Everhart was assistant 
surgeon at the Chambersburgh and Camp Curtin Hospitals.  In 1867 he removed to 
Shrewsbury, Penn., and thence in 1869 to Marysville, Penn., where he remained 
nine years, and then came to Hanover, and here has since continued to reside.  
He was united in marriage in 1859 to Miss Sarah, daughter of Rev. Jacob G. 
Kister.  Mrs. Everhart died in 1860; and Dr. Everhart, in 1864, married Miss 
Anna C. Shelly, daughter of Michael Shelly.  To this marriage have been born 
four children.  Dr. Everhart is a successful physician and enjoys a lucrative 
practice.  He is a Democrat.  Dr. and Mrs. Everhart are members of the Trinity 
Reformed Church.