Everett L. Rexford (1842-1923) was born in Blockville, New York, and died in West Mansfield, Ohio. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, in 1865 and took charge of the Universalist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. That year, he married Julia M. Rexford (b. George). In 1870, he became pastor of the Universalist Church in Columbus, Ohio. From 1874-1878 he worked in San Francisco, California. Julia passed away in San Francisco in 1877, and Rexford married Amanda P. Rexford (b. Pleasants), a principal of a women's seminary, in California in 1878. Later that year, Rexford became president of Buchtel College in Akron, Ohio, (where he had received a honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1874) and pastor of the city's Universalist church. He left both positions in 1880 to preach in Detroit, Michigan. He later became pastor of the First Universalist church in Roxbury, a neighborhood within the city of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1888 before resigning and moving back to Columbus in November 1894. Amanda passed on in late 1894, and he later married Ella U. Rexford (b. Lunn) in 1898. Although Rexford was not a Christian Scientist, his second wife, Amanda P. Rexford, was a student of Annie M. Knott and a member of the Christian Science Dispensary Association.

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