Benjamin Matlack Everhart
American mycologist (1818-1904)
Benjamin Matlack Everhart (April 24, 1818 – September 22, 1904) was an American mycologist from West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Biography
Everhart was born in 1818. His father, William Everhart, the son of a Revolutionary soldier, was a merchant, and a member of congress in 1853–55. Benjamin was educated in private schools in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and spent his early life in mercantile business there and in Charleston, South Carolina, making a comfortable fortune.
From boyhood, he was an ardent student of botany, and after retiring from business in 1867 he devoted himself almost entirely to that science, particularly to cryptogamic botany. In connection with J. B. Ellis, of New Jersey, he was active in issuing yearly fifty volumes, called The Century of North American Fungi, each volume describing 100 species. At the same time, with William A. Kellerman, of Kansas, they published the Journal of Mycology. He was co-editor of two exsiccata series entitled North American fungi. Second series and Fungi Columbiani, distributed by J. B. Ellis.
He discovered many new fungi.
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