{{Infobox officeholder | office = Superintendent of schools,<br>Highland Park, Illinois | term_end = 1898 | term_start = 1894 | name = Elizabeth Hawley Everett | image = Elizabeth Hawley Everett ("Illinois Club Bulletin", Oct. 1909).png | caption = Photo in ''Illinois Club Bulletin'', 1909 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Elizabeth Caldwell Wilkey Hawley | birth_date = August 23, 1857 | birth_place = Pekin, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = September 6, 1940 | death_place = Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. | resting_place = Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. | occupation = {{hlist|clubwoman|suffragist|author|newspaper founder, editor|school principal|superintendent of schools}} | education = | alma_mater = University of Nebraska | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | parents = {{hlist|William Caldwell Hawley|Mary Shuah (Nason) Hawley}} | spouse = {{hlist|{{marriage|James Albert Bowen|1881|1885|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Francis Dennison Everett|1899|1937|end=died}} }} | children = George Hawley Bowen | relatives = | awards = | signature = }} '''Elizabeth Hawley Everett''' ({{nee}}, '''Hawley'''; after first marriage, '''Bowen'''; after second marriage, '''Everett'''; August 23, 1857 – September 6, 1940) was an American clubwoman, suffragist, and author. She served as a school principal and a superintendent of schools, and later, was a newspaper founder and editor. She published ''Hawley and Nason ancestry including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson'' in 1929.
==Early life and education== Elizabeth Caldwell Wilkey Hawley was born in Pekin, Illinois, August 23, 1857. Her parents were William Caldwell Hawley (1830-1918) and Mary Shuah (Nason) Hawley (1829-1909).<ref name="leonard1914">{{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=John W. |title=Woman's Who's who of America |year=1914 |publisher=American Commonwealth Company |page=280 |edition=Public domain |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Woman%27s_who%27s_who_of_America,_1914-15.djvu/268 |language=en}} {{source-attribution}}</ref> Her siblings were: Martha Nason, William Norman, George Appleton, Gideon Leonard, and Nathaniel Nason.<ref name="everett1929" />
She was educated in the schools of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, including the Mt. Pleasant Ladies' Seminary. She also attended the University of Nebraska.<ref name="leonard1914" />
==Career== She served as principal of the Everett and Prescott Schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1887–94. In 1894–98, she was the superintendent of schools of Highland Park, Illinois. Everett was also active in Bible school work.<ref name="leonard1914" />
For fifteen years, she stood for equal suffrage and spoke for it frequently. She was a member of the American Com. YWCA, 1901–06; vice-president, Highland Park Public Library Board, and was a member of the board from 1904; recording secretary, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association; president, Ossoli Club of Highland Park, 1900–02; vice-president, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, 1906–08; president, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, 1908–10; General Federation of Women's Clubs (secretary, Illinois), 1910–12.<ref name="leonard1914" /> thumb|''Illinois Club Bulletin'', Oct. 1909, Vol. 1, No. 1. Everett founded the ''Illinois Club Bulletin'' in 1909, as the official organ of the board of directors of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs,<ref name="everett1909">{{cite journal |last1=Everett |first1=Mrs. Francis D. |journal=The Federation Bulletin |year=1909 |publisher=Illinois State Association of Graduade Nurses |page=109 | volume=6-7 |edition=Public domain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhYkAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 |access-date=22 December 2021 |language=en |title=What the State Federations are Doing. Illinois. By Mrs. Francis D. Everett.}} {{source-attribution}}</ref> and edited it three years.<ref name="leonard1914" />
She was the author of ''Hawley and Nason ancestry including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson.'' (Chicago, R.F. Seymour, 1929)<ref name="themagazine1932">{{cite book |title=The Magazine of American Genealogy |year=1932 |publisher=Institute of American Genealogy |page=1641 |volume=22-27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWlbAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA1641 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== She was twice married. First, on September 13, 1881, at Lincoln, Nebraska, she married James Albert Bowen (b. 1849); they divorced in 1885. Their only child was George Hawley Bowen (1882-1926).<ref name="leonard1914" /><ref name="everett1929">{{cite book |last1=Everett |first1=Elizabeth Hawley |title=Hawley and Nason ancestry, including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson |year=1929 |publisher=R.F. Seymour |location=Chicago |pages=21–22 |url=https://archive.org/details/hawleynasonances00ever/page/22/mode/2up?q=bowen |access-date=22 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="thenebraskastatejournal1926">{{cite news |title=Word has been received |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/314002745/?terms=George%20Hawley%20Bowen&match=1 |access-date=22 December 2021 |work=The Nebraska State Journal |via=Newspapers.com |date=14 January 1926 |page=7 |edition=Public domain}} {{open access}}</ref> Second, on March 2, 1899, she married Francis Dennison Everett (1839-1937),<ref name="thenebraskastatejournal1899">{{cite news |title=Marriage licenses have been granted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/333750968/?terms=elizabeth%20hawley%20bowen&match=1 |access-date=22 December 2021 |work=The Nebraska State Journal |via=Newspapers.com |date=3 March 1899 |page=6 |edition=Public domain}} {{open access}}</ref> a businessman of Chicago.<ref name="lincolnjournalstar1899">{{cite news |title=Mrs. Elizabeth Hawley Bowen was married |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/309381158/?terms=elizabeth%20hawley%20bowen&match=1 |access-date=22 December 2021 |work=Lincoln Journal Star |via=Newspapers.com |date=3 March 1899 |page=5 |edition=Public domain}} {{open access}}</ref>
In religion, she was Presbyterian.<ref name="leonard1914" />
==Death and legacy== Elizabeth Hawley Everett died September 6, 1940,<ref name="snaccooperative">{{cite web |title=Everett, Elizabeth Hawley, 1857-1940 |url=https://snaccooperative.org/view/1471101#resources |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher=Social Networks and Archival Context |access-date=22 December 2021}}</ref> at Highland Park, Illinois, and was buried at Hawley Plot, Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska.<ref name="hawley2005">{{cite book |last1=Hawley |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Olden Time: Stories for Betty |date=4 October 2005 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=978-1-4691-1106-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXr5AAAAQBAJ |access-date=22 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
Her stories, records, and reflections were posthumously gathered in ''The olden time : stories for Betty'', by Elizabeth Hawley Everett, Amanda Carson Bank, and Diane Banks (Philadelphia : Xlibris, 2005).<ref name="hawley2005" />
==Selected works== * ''Hawley and Nason ancestry including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson.'', 1929
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Elizabeth Hawley Everett}}
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