His father was Presley Norton (1907–1944) of New York, and his mother was Blanche La Rose Yoder of Guayaquil.

Evermont went to South America in 1911 as president of the Guayaquil and Quito Railway Company, after an early career as a stockbroker in New York.

He developed the Ecuadorian Railroad, which rises from the Pacific Coast city of Guayaquil, over the Andes Mountains to Quito.

He then went to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne, where he took courses in the history of French civilization and contemporary philosophy until 1955.

He divorced Georgina in 1978 and married María Isabel Fernández Salvador Eastman in 1982, with whom he had 2 children.