First part of Autobiography of Judge G. A. Everts Fort Worth, Texas June 11, 1877
I was born in the N. W. Territory, (now Ohio) in the month of August 1797. My father having been appointed Surveyor of Public Lands, and had moved to the territory years before. I am consequently 80 years old in August prox.
Seventy five years ago last March 4th, my Father died, leaving my mother a widow with seven children, consequently the training and education of the younger children devolved upon her.
My mother was a fine scholar, and had every advantage that means and position could give, under the guidance of Doctor Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, N. H. She taught me to read, and I do not remember when I could not read.
She instructed me in English grammer, arithmetic and geography, so that in the spring of 1812, I entered the Ohio University at Athens, then a mere academy. There I commenced the study of Latin.
In 1818 I went to Kentucky, taught a seminary four or five years, and read law all of my leisure time, and in December 1823 was licensed to practice law. In 1828 I moved to Indiana.
In the spring of 1832 while attending court at Ft. Wayne, I was employed by fourteen Indians, who had been arrested and imprisioned in Chicago, Ill. by one Guerom S. Hubbard, on capias served out on a note given by the fourteen Indians to Ann Burnett for $20,000. Ann's father was ---- Burnett brother to David G. Burnett, the first president of the Republic of Texas, who had resided with the Ottawa Indians on the Winnebago River (now Wisconsin) and had been elected chief. ...