Isaiah Fawkes Everhart (January 22, 1840 – May 26, 1911) was an American physician and naturalist who founded the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Everhart was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1840, the youngest son of James and Mary Templin Everhart. He spent his early youth at the homestead, gaining his rudimentary education at the schools and academies of the neighborhood. At the age of seventeen he matriculated at Franklin & Marshall College, where he spent four years in the pursuit of a scientific course of study, giving special attention to the natural sciences. After his graduation he studied medicine, and, at the breaking out of the Civil War, entered the Satterlee General Hospital, then with 4,000 patients under charge of I. I. Hayes of Arctic exploration