Son Maxwell Evarts graduated from Yale College in 1884, where he was also a member of Skull and Bones. He served as a New York City district attorney, and later as General Counsel for E. H. Harriman, which later became the Union Pacific Railroad. He was president of two Windsor, Vermont, banks, and the chief financial backer of the Gridley Automatic Lathe "(manufactured by the Windsor Machine Co.)". In politics, Maxwell served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives and was a Vermont State Fair Commissioner.