 She hosted a literary salon in San Francisco, drawing "all that were worth knowing in California", according to Western writer Bret Harte.Mary Catherine McIntire married Romualdo Pacheco in 1863, at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco.They had two children, Maybella Ramona (later Mrs. William S. Tevis) and Romualdo Jr. Their son died at age 6 in 1871.