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; demolished in 1958, an architectural and historical loss to Waseca County. Mrs. Everett was the former Mary Regene "Gene" Miller, daughter of Rinehart Miller, prominent Waseca merchant at the turn of the century; she was the second Mrs. E. A. Everett, as her sister Antoinette or "Nettie", the first Mrs. E. A. Everett died in a train wreck in Mexico in 1909.
