Richard Stevens

Richard Stevens (May 23, 1868 – May 18, 1919) was an attorney and real estate developer in Hoboken, New Jersey which his family owned all of at one time. Early life Stevens was born in Paris, France on May 23, 1868. He was the son of Martha Bayard (née Dod) Stevens (1831–1899) and Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), a well-known designer and founder of the Stevens Institute of Technology. Among his siblings was Mary Picton Stevens (the wife of politician Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett and, later, Edward Parke Custis Lewis, U.S. Minister to Portugal); John Stevens IV (grandfather of Millicent Fenwick); and Edwin Augustus Stevens Jr., founder of the New York design firm Cox & Stevens. His paternal grandparents were Col. John Stevens III and Rachel (née Cox) Stevens. Among his large and prominent family were uncles Robert Livingston Stevens and John Cox Stevens, founder of the New York Yacht Club and a driving force in the design of the yacht America and the competition for the America's Cup. His maternal grandparents were Caroline Smith (née Bayard) Dod and Albert Baldwin Dod, the Presbyterian theologian and professor of mathematics at Princeton University.