Bache McEvers


Bache McEvers was an American commission merchant, shipper, and insurer.

Early life

McEvers was born on October 11, 1798. He was a son of merchant Charles McEvers Jr., Esq. and, his first wife, Mary McEvers. He had two siblings, and older sister, Sarah Barclay McEvers 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.
His maternal grandparents were Curaçao born Ann Dorothy Bache and Theophylact Bache, a pro-British merchant. His grandfather was the older brother of Settle, Yorkshire born and Philadelphia-based Richard Bache, the United States Postmaster General who married Sarah Franklin. His paternal grandfather was merchant Charles McEvers. Two of his aunts married into the Livingston family, Mary McEvers and Eliza McEvers.

Career

McEvers was a prominent New York "commission merchant, shipper, and insurer who sold Louisiana cotton and sugar." He also served as president of the New-York Insurance Company and assistant of the American Insurance Company of New-York in 1834. 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." Leary's sister, Annie, was made a Papal Countess by Pope Leo XIII.

Personal life

On October 15, 1825, McEvers was married to Jane Erin Emmet, the daughter of Irish patriot and immigrant Thomas Addis Emmet, who was living in the United States by 1804. Together, they were the parents of three children:
McEvers died on July 15, 1851 in Paris. He was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in Manhattan.

Descendants

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Sir Bache Edward Cunard, 3rd Baronet, who married the American heiress Maud Alice Burke, and Sir Gordon Cunard, 4th Baronet who married Edith Mary Howard.