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Was Evarts a Baptist minister?[edit]

I am putting this comment on top to save you from reading the rest. As Gilda Radner's Emily Litella used to say, "Nevermind." I think that I’ve solved the problem. It was a typo in Carwardine's essay: "Evarts" should have been "Everts." In the unlikely event that anyone wants the details, write to my Talk page. Maurice Magnus (talk) 02:36, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In a book on the Emancipation Proclamation, I came across a reference to 19th century "Baptist Minister William Evarts." There is no word in William M. Evarts that he was a minister of any faith. I googled and came across a webpage with a reference to "William M. [W.] Evarts." Early Chicago Baptist Churches and Ministers (baptisthistoryhomepage.com). He, like William M. Evarts, graduated from Yale College in 1937. The graduating class of Yale College of 1937 lists only one "Wm. M. Evart." Records from 1837 to 1857 of the Class graduated at Yale College in 1837. W... - Google Books.

The webpage mentions William M. [W.] Evarts in the context that Rev. C. B. Smith, D.D. "graduated at Yale College in the class of 1837, a class distinguished as containing such men as William M. [W.] Evarts, Edwards Pierrepont, Samuel J. Tilden, and Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite." We know, then, that William M. [W.] Evarts was considered distinguished.

The webpage with the reference to William M. [W.] Evarts says nothing else about him, but the webpage is titled, "Baptist History Homepage: Early Chicago Baptist Churches and Ministers." baptisthistoryhomepage.com./illinois.chicg.bp.chs.mns.html.

Thus, William M. Evarts and William M. [W.] Evarts both had the same middle initial, both graduated from Yale College in 1937, and both became distinguished.

William M. Evarts "was not involved in the antislavery crusade except for his involvement in the Lemmon Slave Case." William M. [W.] Evarts prepared a set of resolutions for a gathering of Christians to urge Lincoln to adopt an emancipation proclamation. My source for this information is an essay in the book I mentioned in my first sentence above: Richard Carwardine, "Whatever Shall Appear to be God's Will, I Will Do: The Chicago Initiative and Lincoln's Proclamation," in William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger, eds. Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Carwardine provides no source for his reference to "Baptist Minister William Evarts." Perhaps he was referring to William M. Evarts but was mistaken that he was a Baptist minister.

Were the two men one and the same? The strongest evidence that they were, it seems to me, is that only one Wm. M. Evarts is listed in the Yale College graduating class of 1937. Maurice Magnus (talk) 21:17, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]