Everett, Caroline (Lena) Kane (Mills) (1867 - 1921)

Providence, Rhode Island

Miss Caroline Kane Mills, daughter of Rev. Dr. Laurence H. Mills, professor of Oxford University, England, will be married to Alexander Leo Everett, of New York, Grandson of the late Edward Everett, at St. John’s Episcopal church. The bride’s father has come from England to assist Rector Richards in the ceremony. There will be but simple decorations at the church, the altar table alone being covered with flowers. The bride will wear a beautiful piece of lace for her veil, an heirloom that has been in her family for many years. Miss Mills is an artist, and has had a studio in New York for the past five years.

Source: Fall River Daily Evening News (Newspaper) (Fall River, Massachusetts) 17 Sep 1898.

Everett, Caroline (Lena) (Mills) portraits in pastels; born in Rhode Island; studied in Julian Academy (Paris); married to Leo Everett, 1898. Exhibited at the Society of American Artists (N.Y.); and Chicago World’s Fair (1893). Address, New York. Summers, Shanklin, England.

Source:

Hosking, Arthur Nicholas, The Artists Year Book, The Art League Publishing Association, Chicago. 1905-06.
Obituary
Mrs. Caroline Mills Everett, wife of Leo A. Everett, of 130 East Sixty-Seventy Street, died yesterday at the American Hospital in Paris, according to cabled information. Death was due to heart disease, from which she had suffered for years. Mrs. Everett had gone abroad for the summer. She is survived by her husband and a daughter, Mrs. Elise Everett Abbott, of this city.

Mrs. Everett was an author and portrait painter. She wrote The House Opposite, a mystery story that won large popularity. Her last work was an essay, The Privilege of Pain. She was a member of the Colony Club.

Source:
New York Tribune (Newspaper) (New York, New York) 15 Jul 1921.
Submitted by Edward P. Bentley, Art Researcher and Historian, Greenville, Michigan.