32.266

Photograph, Tintype

1862 Approximate

Willie or Charles Everett. Material: metal. Size: 2" x 3 1/8". Description: tintype photograph, hand-tinted, of a child, a little blond-haired boy, dressed in two-piece suit, high-button shoes, standing next to a straight chair; a son of William A. Everett, who was killed in the Lake Shetek Indian massacre in 1862; it is either Willie or Charles Everett. William A. Everett born 1828.

The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the E. A. Co Mill in Waseca County. The Everett home, built by William's son Edward Everett, overlooking the east end of Clear Lake, was a showplace in its time, a classic Victorian-style home, it was demolished in 1958 it was an architectural and historical loss to Waseca County.