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. Connie, daughter of E. A. and Nettie Miller Everett; Mary Regene or "Gene" became Connie's stepmother when she married E. A. Everett in 1916; Nettie Everett died in a train wreck in 1909 when Connie was 7 years old.