Charles McEvers (1764-1841)

He was a merchant from 1804 to "long after 1815" with the famous firm of LeRoy, Bayard & McEvers. He was one of the 24 brokers who signed the Buttonwood Agreement (1792) which allowed for the creation of the New York Stock Exchange and is one of the most important financial documents in U.S. history. He succeeded Archibald Gracie as President of the New York Insurance Company in 1799. He was a director of the Bank of New York from 1816 to 1840. By 1830, his "hair was as white as snow". In 1787, he married Mary Bache, daughter of Theophylact Bache, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and they had two sons and a daughter. In 1806, he married his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Dr Ananias Cooper, of Rhinebeck, and had three further daughters. From his father in 1808 he inherited the McEvers Mansion at 34 Wall Street but later moved to 483 Broadway where he died, allowing his son, Bache, to take up residence at No. 34.