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Maxwell Evarts (S&B1884)

Attorney. St. Pauls*. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Harvard Law School.

He was President of the State National Bank of Windsor, Vice-President of the Windsor Machine Co, half owner of the Amsden (Vt.) Lime Co, president of the Vermont State Fair Association, a governor of the Morgan Horse Club, and president of the Vermont Fish and Game League.[4]

In recent years he had been active in the councils of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co, Union Pacific Railroad Co, and affiliated lines of the Harriman and system.[4]

1906 - Member of the Vermont House of Representatives.[4]

1904, he was elected a Director of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co, for several years was an attorney of the Harriman system (owner E.H. Harriman. Sons … W.A.Harriman S&B1913 and E. Roland Harriman S&B1917), and in 1910 was made general counsel of the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. Upon the recent separation of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads he became general counsel of the Southern Pacific Co. He had also been a director of the Pacific Mad Steamship Co. and the Union Pacific Land Co.[4]

23 Apr 1891 - Married Margaret Allen Stetson, daughter of Charles Augustus and Josephine (Brick) Stetson, and had four daughters and a son. The son is a member of the Academical Class of 1917. Two of his brothers graduated from Yale College in 1869 and 1881, respectively, and two from Harvard in 1872 and 1881, respectively.[4]

1890 to 1892 - Appointed an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. He held this office two years, after which he entered the law department of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.[4]

Until Summer 1889 - Joined law office of Seward, DaCosta & Guthne.[4]

After graduation he studied two years in the Harvard Law School.[4]

1884 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 7 Oct 1913, from intestinal trouble. Age 51.

Father, William Maxwell Evarts (S&B1837) - Chief Counsel for U.S. President Andrew Johnson during the Impeachment Trial in 1868, U.S. Attorney General (July 17, 1868-March 4, 1869), Counsel for U.S. President Rutherford Hayes (Odd Fellows), in behalf of the Republican Party, before the Electoral Commission in 1876 and U.S. Secretary of State (1877-1881)

Brother, Sherman Evarts (S&B 1881)

Brother, Maxwell Evarts (S&B 1884)

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 102 / On the Page 629.

[5] - FYI - Wiki - Maxwell Evarts (S&B1884)