Lloyd Tevis (March 20, 1824 – July 24, 1899)[1] was a banker and capitalist who served as president of Wells Fargo & Company from 1872 to 1892.

After a further period of study and work in a neighboring county, he became a salesman with a wholesale dry goods company in Louisville, Kentucky.

Finding little success in the diggings, at the end of the year he went to Sacramento and secured a position in the county recorder's office.

In October 1850 he joined an acquaintance, James Ben Ali Haggin, in opening a law office in Sacramento.

Haggin and Tevis married sisters, daughters of Colonel Lewis Sanders, a Kentuckian who had emigrated to California.

Faced with the need to get Tevis' exclusive railroad contract, in the so-called Omaha Conference of October 4, 1869, Wells Fargo accepted Tevis' controlling interest and arranged for the consolidation of Pacific Union Express and Wells Fargo, which occurred in 1870.

[5][11] A sound operator, Tevis made his most risky ventures when he went into gold, silver and copper mining on a large scale.

He was owner or part-owner of gold and silver mines in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and South Dakota.

[17] Two months after selling his interest in the Anaconda properties, Tevis died in San Francisco on July 24, 1899, survived by his wife and five children.

When it became obvious the next day that the house would be destroyed by the advancing fires, Tevis led them to the safety of North Beach.