Charles P. Leverich
Charles P. Leverich | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1811 |
| Died | 1880 |
| Occupation | Banker |
Charles P. Leverich (1811-1880) was an American banker.
Biography
Early life
Charles Palmer Leverich was born in 1811.[1] He had three brothers: Henry S. Leverich, James Harvey and Charles E. Leverich.[1][2]
Career
From 1834 onwards, he became a factor for Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), the wealthiest cotton and sugar planter in the Antebellum South.[1][2] He also served as a factor to the Minor and Connor families.[2] Additionally, he was a factor to planters William Newton Mercer (1792-1874), Levin Marshall, William St. John Elliot, Francis Surget (1784-1856) and his son Francis Surget, Jr. (1815-1866), Sam Davis, William T. Palfrey, Mary Porter and John Julius Pringle.[2] He operated under the name of 'Charles P. Leverich & Co.', with a Southern office in New Orleans, Louisiana.[3]
He joined the Board of Directors of the Bank of New York in 1840.[1][2] He went on to serve as its Vice-president in 1853 and its President from 1863 to 1876.[1][2][4] In this capacity, he helped raise US$50,000,000 for the Union army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.[2]
Personal life
Both he and his brother Henry married nieces of Stephen Duncan's.[1]
Death
He died in 1880. His obituary was published in The New York Times.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Texas Archival Resource Online
- ^ a b c d e f g William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, pp. 155-156
- ^ Scott P. Marler, The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 29 Apr 2013, p. 110
- ^ Warren, Gorham & Lamont, Incorporated, 1864, The Bankers Magazine, Volume 19, p. 531
- ^ The New York Times: Obituary