Married to Joaquina Vásquez Fernández, he had six children:
Eduardo (another prominent politician), Adela, Julia, Paulina, Joaquina, and Luisa (who married
Juan Carlos Blanco Fernández and gave birth to many notable lawyers and politicians). One of his brothers, Norberto Acevedo Maturana, had also a fruitful offspring, notably the writer and journalist
Eduardo Acevedo Díaz. ==References==