Evelina Gabrielle du Pont

Evalina Gabrielle du Pont was another daughter of Eleuthère Irènée and Sophie Madeleine, born in 1796. She married James Antoine Bidermann, the son of one of the French investors in the du Pont gunpowder mill. Antoine had been sent by his father to check on his American investment, stayed to work at the mill, and bought a nearby farm which he named Winterthur. Evalina died in 1863, and Antoine died two years later. The Bidermanns had one child, a son, who preferred to live in Europe, and therefore he sold Winterthur to his uncle General Henry du Pont.