Everall, Ben C. "Major" 1881 - 1935

EVERALL, MATT

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 9/14/2017 at 09:55:16

Clayton County Register, Thur., 17 Jan. 1935.

Ben C. Everall, the youngest son of John and Vallonia Everall, was born Oct. 23, 1881, in Farmersburg township. He attended Epworth seminary, Iowa Teachers college, and completed his medical course at Drake university, Des Moines, in 1907. He took his internship at Rochester, Minn., at St. Mary's hospital, where later he completed his fellowship work in the Mayo clinic. He was a member of the American College of Surgeons.

He practiced medicine at St. Olaf for two years and then located at Waterloo, where he continued a successful practice until the opening of the World War. In 1916 he was called to Brownsville, Texas, and later to Demming, New Mexico, and later was transferred for overseas duties in medical corps as captain in the 109th engineers. In the fall of 1917 he was promoted to major, in which position he served until the end of the war.

After having been discharged from active duty in July 1920, he returned to his medical practice at Waterloo, which he continued until health forced him to retire.

The last few years of his life were spent at San Antonio, Tex., where he died at the age of 52 years. His parents and three brothers, Richard, George and John Everall, preceded him in death, and he is survived by two sisters, Misses Matt and Bess E. Everall, of Albert Lea, Minn., and one brother, Dr. Bruce B. Everall, of Monona.

Dr. Ben Everall was well known in the community as well as around Waterloo, not only for his unusual surgical ability but for his loving and friendly spirit.