Devereux, John G., active 1856-1890

Hardware merchant and banker of New Orleans and Confederate veteran.

John G. Devereux (fl. 1856-1890) was a merchant and banker of New Orleans and a Confederate veteran. He may have been the son of John Devereux (fl. 1822), a Dublin merchant and shipper. Between at least 1856 and 1859, the younger Devereux operated a hardware business in New Orleans, supplying local planters, businesses, and institutions with metalwork, tools, and plumbing supplies. With the outbreak of war, Devereux entered the Louisiana Artillery and assumed the rank of lieutenant. Upon his promotion to major, he became assistant adjutant general to Major General Martin Luther Smith (1819-1866), commander of the Confederate 3rd Brigade. After the war, Devereux served as cashier of the Southern Bank and as administrator of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans. One document shows that he served as executor of the estate of Thomas Jefferson Cooley in 1887. He married Sarah P. Chilton (died 1870) in 1867.

Stephen Van Wickle was sheriff of Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana, from around 1819 until 1835. He also served as a business and legal agent for Valerien Ledoux (died 1853), a Point Coupee sugar planter. In 1835 J. C. Van Wickle, possibly Stephen's son, took over the position of sheriff, as well as the management of the Ledoux estate. Evidence suggests that he was also himself a sugar planter.