Bache McEvers

Bache McEvers
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Bache McEvers (October 11, 1798 – July 15, 1851)[citation needed] 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 (1764–1841) and, his first wife, Mary (née Bache) McEvers (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)[1] 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.[2]

His maternal grandparents were Curaçao born Ann Dorothy (née Barclay) Bache and Theophylact Bache, a pro-British merchant.[3] His grandfather was the older brother of Settle, Yorkshire born and Philadelphia-based Richard Bache,[2] the United States Postmaster General who married Sarah Franklin (only daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read).[3] 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).[1]

Career

McEvers was a prominent New York "commission merchant, shipper, and insurer who sold Louisiana cotton and sugar."[4] He also served as president of the New-York Insurance Company and assistant of the American Insurance Company of New-York in 1834.[5] 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."[6] Leary's sister, Annie, was made a Papal Countess by Pope Leo XIII.[7]

Personal life

Coat of Arms of Bache McEvers

On October 15, 1825, McEvers was married to Jane Erin Emmet (1802–1890), the daughter of Irish patriot and immigrant Thomas Addis Emmet,[8] who was living in the United States by 1804 (and became New York State Attorney General in 1812).[9] Together, they were the parents of three children:[2]

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 (1851–1925),[11] who married the American heiress Maud Alice Burke,[12] and Sir Gordon Cunard, 4th Baronet who married Edith Mary Howard (a daughter of Col. John Stanley Howard).[13]

References

  1. ^ a b Livingston, Edwin Brockholst (1910). The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants. Knickerbocker Press. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Moffat, R. Burnham (1904). The Barclays of New York: who They are and who They are Not,-and Some Other Barclays. R. G. Cooke. p. 135. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b Fanelli, Doris Devine; Diethorn, Karie (2001). History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park. American Philosophical Society. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-87169-242-9. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  4. ^ Schermerhorn, Jack Lawrence; Schermerhorn, Calvin (2015). The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860. Yale University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-300-19200-1. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  5. ^ Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory: for the ... Year of American Independence: 1834-1835. Printed and published ... by David Longworth. 1834. p. 31. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  6. ^ "ARTHUR LEARY IS DEAD. FOR YEARS HE WAS PROMINENT IN BUSINESS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY" (PDF). The New York Times. February 24, 1893. p. 8. ProQuest 95089501. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  7. ^ "FUNERAL OF ARTHUR LEARY | SERVICES HELD IN ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL -- MANY PRESENT" (PDF). The New York Times. February 28, 1893. p. 9. ProQuest 95070294. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  8. ^ Emmet, Thomas Addis (1898). A Memoir of John Patten Emmet, M. D.: Formerly Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica in the University of Virginia, with a Brief Outline of the Emmet Family History. Bradstreet Press. p. 46. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Mourning brooch". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  10. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 547. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  11. ^ "SIR BACHE CUNARD DIES IN ENGLAND; Grandson of Founder of Steamship Line Was Prominent in English Hunting World". The New York Times. 4 November 1925. p. 23. ProQuest 103486513. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  12. ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (11 July 1948). "Lady Cunard, Noted as Hostess, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. 52. ProQuest 108118587. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  13. ^ "SIR GORDON CUNARD DIES.; Descendant of Staamship Line's Founder Was 76". The New York Times. 26 April 1933. p. 15. ProQuest 100688842. Retrieved 13 March 2020.