Bache McEvers
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McEvers was born on October 11, 1798. He was a son of merchant Charles McEvers (1764–1841) and, his first wife, Mary McEvers (née Bache; b. 1766). He had two siblings, an older sister, Sarah Barclay McEvers (the wife of their cousin, Robert Montgomery Livingston, a grandson of Judge Robert Livingston)[4] and an older brother, Charles McEvers III, who died unmarried in 1843. After his mother's death, his father remarried to Margaret Cooper, a daughter of Dr. Ananias Cooper.[5]
His maternal grandparents were Curaçao born Ann Dorothy Bache (née Barclay) and Theophylact Bache, a pro-British merchant.[6] His grandfather was the older brother of Settle, Yorkshire born and Philadelphia-based Richard Bache,[5] the United States Postmaster General who married Sarah Franklin (only daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read).[6] His paternal grandfather was merchant Charles McEvers. Two of his aunts married into the Livingston family, Mary McEvers (first wife of U.S. Secretary of State and Minister to France Edward Livingston) and Eliza McEvers (wife of merchant John R. Livingston).[4]
Career
McEvers was a prominent New York "commission merchant, shipper, and insurer who sold Louisiana cotton and sugar."[7] He also served as president of the New-York Insurance Company and assistant of the American Insurance Company of New-York in 1834.[8] He hired Arthur Leary to join his counting house as a clerk. Within a few years, Leary became a partner in the business and upon McEvers death in 1851, he formed a partnership with McEvers's son-in-law, Sir Edward Cunard. The partnership later ended and Leary "assumed full charge of the shipping business."[9] Leary's sister, Annie, was made a Papal Countess by Pope Leo XIII.[10]
