For 10 years, he served as teacher and superintendent of schools in
Indiana and
California. While teaching in
Carroll County, Indiana Evermann met fellow teacher Meadie Hawkins. They married on October 24, 1875, and had a son, Toxaway Bronte (born 1879) and a daughter, Edith (born 1894). In 1888, Evermann entered the service of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries, became an ichthyologist in 1891, had charge of the division of scientific inquiry in 1903–1911, and from 1910 to 1914, was chief of the
Alaska Fisheries Service. Evermann was
fur seal commissioner in 1892 and became chairman of the fur seal board in 1908. Evermann died in
Berkeley, California, aged 78. ==See also==