Charles W. Everest

Born at East Windsor, Connecticut, May 27, 1814, graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, 1838, and took Holy Orders in 1842. He was rector at Hamden, Connecticut, from 1842 to 1873, and also agent for the Society for the Increase of the Ministry. He died at Waterbury, Connecticut, Jan. 11, 1877. In 1833 he published Visions of Death, and Other Poems; from this work his popular hymn "Take Up Thy Cross" is taken