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Richard Stevens (lawyer)

August 31, 2023

Richard Stevens (May 23, 1868 – May 18, 1919)[1] was an attorney and real estate developer in Hoboken, New Jersey which his family owned all of at one time.

Richard Stevens
Born(1868-05-23)May 23, 1868
Paris, France
DiedMay 18, 1919(1919-05-18) (aged 50)
Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
EducationSt. Paul's School
Alma materColumbia College
Columbia Law School
Spouse
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(m. 1893)​
Children4
Parent(s)Edwin Augustus Stevens
Martha Bayard Dod Stevens
RelativesEdwin A. Stevens Jr. (brother)
John Cox Stevens (uncle)
Robert L. Stevens (uncle)
John Stevens III (grandfather)
Albert Baldwin Dod (grandfather)

Early life Edit

 
Steven's wife, Elizabeth Callendar Stevens, c. 1910
 
Steven's wife, Elizabeth Callendar Stevens, c. 1915.

Stevens was born in Paris, France on May 23, 1868. He was the son of Martha Bayard (née Dod) Stevens (1831–1899)[2] and Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), a well-known designer and founder of the Stevens Institute of Technology.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5]

He first attended Stevens High School (from 1880 to 1881) and then the St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then entered Columbia College, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1890, following by a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1892.[6]

Career Edit

Following his graduation from Law School in 1892, he was admitted to the bar in 1893.[7] In 1898, he formed the law firm of Lewis, Besson & Stevens,[8] along with Edwin A. Lewis and Judge J. Rufus Besson.[9]

In 1896, Stevens was elected second vice president of Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which represented the Stevens estate, later serving as its president.[7] His family at one time owned the entire city of what is today, Hoboken.[7]

For sixteen years, he served as "Probation Officer" for Hudson County. He also served as a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken and U.S. Commissioner of Jurors for the District of New Jersey. Stevens was a trustee of the New Jersey Industrial School, a trustee of the Stevens Institute of Technology, and a trustee of the Church of the Holy Innocents, which was built by his mother. In addition, he was the treasurer of Christ Hospital (associated with the Episcopal Diocese of Newark),[10] and president of the United Aid Society.[7]

Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Stevens offered, and the government accepted, the Stevens Mansion, a 40-room mansion which overlooked the Hudson River at Castle Point in Hoboken, for use as a home for convalescing soldiers.[9]

Personal life Edit

 
Steven's eldest daughter, Elizabeth Callendar "Elsie" Stevens.

On November 11, 1893, Stevens was married to his first cousin, Elizabeth Callendar Stevens "Elsie" (1869–c. 1963) at St. Peter & St. Paul's Church in Hoboken.[11] Elizabeth, a prominent suffragist,[12] was the daughter of his paternal uncle, Francis Bowes Stevens,[13] and Elizabeth Callendar (née Harris) Stevens.[14][15] Together they were the parents of four children:

  • Elizabeth Callendar "Elsie" Stevens (1895–1920), who died unmarried at age 25.[16]
  • Caroline Bayard Stevens (1897–1971), who married Edward Beach Condon (d. 1942),[17] a son Thomas G. Condon of New York, in 1921.[18] They divorced in 1926.[19] After their divorce, he remarried to Mary McLeod (née Cameron) Mayer (a daughter of Duncan Ewen Cameron),[20] and Caroline remarried to stockbroker and rancher Jack Speiden.[21]
  • Dorothy Pintard Stevens,[22] who married architect Matthew Corry Fleming Jr., son of Matthew C. Fleming of 1060 Fifth Avenue, in 1929.[23][24]
  • Richard Stevens Jr. (1905–1985),[9][25] who studied at the University of Oxford in England.[26]

He was a member of the Union Club, the Racquet and Tennis Club, and the New York Yacht Club.[9]

Stevens died at his home at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 18, 1919.[1] His estate, valued at $2,611,314,[27] was held in trust for the benefit of his children.[22]

After his death, his widow remarried "bohemian writer" and diplomat Josef Forman of Czechoslovakia in London in 1925.[16][28] The marriage did not last long, and in 1927 they divorced.[26][29] After her divorce by final decree in Paris in May 1927, she resumed the use of the name, Mrs. Stevens Stevens.[30]

Descendants Edit

Through his daughter, he was the grandfather of Richard Stevens Condon,[31] who married actress Anne Gerety,[32] and Edward Beach Condon Jr., who married Elizabeth Guest, the sister of Andy Guest and daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Raymond R. Guest, in 1958.[33] They divorced and she married George Stevens, Jr. in 1965.[34]

References Edit

  1. ^ a b "RICHARD STEVENS DIES AT CASTLE POINT HOME Had Been, Since Brother's Death, the Head of Family That Once Owned Hoboken" (PDF). The New York Times. May 19, 1919. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Mrs. Martha B. Stevens Dead. She Passes Away at Her Home, "Castle Point," Hoboken". The New York Times. 2 April 1899. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  3. ^ Allen, Oliver E. "The First Family of Inventors" 2010-01-13 at the Wayback Machine, Invention & Technology Magazine, Fall 1987.
  4. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1894. p. 342. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Nancy Squire Dod". librarycollections.stevens.edu. Stevens Digital Collections. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  6. ^ Officers and Graduates of Columbia College, Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King's College: General Catalogue 1754-1900. Columbia University. 1900. p. 562. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d "Stevens, Richard". hoboken.pastperfectonline.com. Hoboken Historical Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  8. ^ The New Jersey Law Journal. Honeyman & Rowe. 1919. p. 192. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. ^ a b c d Stevens Indicator. Alumni Association of Stevens Institute of Technology. 1919. pp. 207–208. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  10. ^ "Our History". Retrieved 2011-11-12. Christ Hospital was founded in 1872 with a radical mission ...
  11. ^ Stevens Indicator. Alumni and Undergraduates of Stevens Institute of Technology. 1894. p. 58. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  12. ^ Neuman, Johanna (2017). Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote. NYU Press. p. 111. ISBN 9781479818280. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  13. ^ "Francis Bowes Stevens". librarycollections.stevens.edu. Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  14. ^ Banta, Theodore Melvin (1901). Sayre Family: Lineage of Thomas Sayre, a Founder of Southampton. De Vinne Press. p. 127. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  15. ^ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 1880. p. 120. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  16. ^ a b "MRS. STEVENS WEDS BOHEMIAN AUTHOR; Eleven Drive in Decorated Cars to Registry Office for Her Marriage to Josef Forman. RECEPTION AT HER HOME Bride, Widow of Richard Stevens of Castle Point, and Bridegroom Leave for the Continent" (PDF). The New York Times. October 13, 1925. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  17. ^ "EDWARD B. CONDON; New York Stock Broker Dies in Phoenix, Ariz" (PDF). The New York Times. April 9, 1942. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  18. ^ "MISS STEVENS WEDS EDWARD B. CONDON Daughter of Mrs. Richard Stevens of Castle Point a Bride in Bernardsville" (PDF). The New York Times. July 1, 1921. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  19. ^ "DIVORCE GRANTED WIFE OF B.H. WARBURTON JR.; Paris Suit Charged Wanamaker's Grandson With Desertion -- Mrs. E.B. Condon Gets Decree" (PDF). The New York Times. August 14, 1926. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  20. ^ "MRS. EDWARD B. CONDON" (PDF). The New York Times. August 19, 1943. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  21. ^ "JOHN G. F. SPEIDEN, ARIZONA RANCHMAN". New York Times. August 8, 1970. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  22. ^ a b "STEVENS WILL PROVED. Children's Shares in Estate Not to be Paid Till They Are Forty" (PDF). The New York Times. June 6, 1919. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  23. ^ "DOROTHY STEVENS ENGAGED TO MARRY; Daughter of Mrs. R. Stevens of Castle Point, Hoboken, to Wed M.C. Fleming Jr. MISS ALEXANDER'S TROTH Debutante of This Winter to Marry Roswell C. Dunn of Baltimore --Other Engagements" (PDF). The New York Times. February 9, 1929. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  24. ^ "DOROTHY FLEMING WED IN PRINCETON; Member of the Stevens Family of Hoboken Married to E. M. Clorman, Former Ensign" (PDF). The New York Times. May 15, 1949. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  25. ^ Lee, Francis Bazley (1910). Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ... Lewis historical Publishing Company. pp. 199, 202. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  26. ^ a b "Mrs. Elsie Stevens Forman Obtains Divorce From Second Husband, London Cable Reveals" (PDF). The New York Times. February 22, 1927. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  27. ^ "RICHARD STEVENS ESTATE.; Total Assets $2,611,314 In Final Accounting of Executors" (PDF). The New York Times. March 28, 1925. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  28. ^ "Mrs. Richard Stevens". www.loc.gov. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  29. ^ "Mrs. Richard Stevens (ca. 1870-ca. 1963)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  30. ^ "MRS. FORMAN GETS FINAL DIVORCE DECREE; Cable Brings News From Paris Will Take Her Former Name, Mrs. Stevens Stevens" (PDF). The New York Times. May 4, 1927. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  31. ^ "ADRIAN G. JOHNS IS MARRIED HERE; Wears Gown of Ivory Italian Silk Satin at Wedding to Richard Stevens Condon" (PDF). The New York Times. January 6, 1957. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  32. ^ "Eliza Bergman Bride Of Michael S. Condon, Restaurant Consultant". The New York Times. 28 May 1978. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  33. ^ "ELIZABETH GUEST IS WED IN CAPITAL; Escorted by Her Father at Marriage to Edward Beach Condon, T.W.A. Official" (PDF). The New York Times. March 8, 1958. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  34. ^ Times, Special To The New York (6 July 1965). "Mrs. Elizabeth Guest Condon Married to George Stevens Jr". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 April 2017.

Further reading Edit

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Richard Stevens May 23 1868 May 18 1919 1 was an attorney and real estate developer in Hoboken New Jersey which his family owned all of at one time Richard StevensBorn 1868 05 23 May 23 1868Paris FranceDiedMay 18 1919 1919 05 18 aged 50 Hoboken New Jersey U S EducationSt Paul s SchoolAlma materColumbia CollegeColumbia Law SchoolSpouseElizabeth Callendar Stevens m 1893 wbr Children4Parent s Edwin Augustus StevensMartha Bayard Dod StevensRelativesEdwin A Stevens Jr brother John Cox Stevens uncle Robert L Stevens uncle John Stevens III grandfather Albert Baldwin Dod grandfather Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 3 1 Descendants 4 References 5 Further readingEarly life Edit Steven s wife Elizabeth Callendar Stevens c 1910 Steven s wife Elizabeth Callendar Stevens c 1915 Stevens was born in Paris France on May 23 1868 He was the son of Martha Bayard nee Dod Stevens 1831 1899 2 and Edwin Augustus Stevens 1795 1868 a well known designer and founder of the Stevens Institute of Technology 3 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 amp Stevens 4 His paternal grandparents were Col John Stevens III and Rachel nee 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 nee Bayard Dod and Albert Baldwin Dod the Presbyterian theologian and professor of mathematics at Princeton University 5 He first attended Stevens High School from 1880 to 1881 and then the St Paul s School in Concord New Hampshire and then entered Columbia College graduating with an A B degree in 1890 following by a J D degree from Columbia Law School in 1892 6 Career EditFollowing his graduation from Law School in 1892 he was admitted to the bar in 1893 7 In 1898 he formed the law firm of Lewis Besson amp Stevens 8 along with Edwin A Lewis and Judge J Rufus Besson 9 In 1896 Stevens was elected second vice president of Hoboken Land and Improvement Company which represented the Stevens estate later serving as its president 7 His family at one time owned the entire city of what is today Hoboken 7 For sixteen years he served as Probation Officer for Hudson County He also served as a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken and U S Commissioner of Jurors for the District of New Jersey Stevens was a trustee of the New Jersey Industrial School a trustee of the Stevens Institute of Technology and a trustee of the Church of the Holy Innocents which was built by his mother In addition he was the treasurer of Christ Hospital associated with the Episcopal Diocese of Newark 10 and president of the United Aid Society 7 Soon after the outbreak of World War I Stevens offered and the government accepted the Stevens Mansion a 40 room mansion which overlooked the Hudson River at Castle Point in Hoboken for use as a home for convalescing soldiers 9 Personal life Edit Steven s eldest daughter Elizabeth Callendar Elsie Stevens On November 11 1893 Stevens was married to his first cousin Elizabeth Callendar Stevens Elsie 1869 c 1963 at St Peter amp St Paul s Church in Hoboken 11 Elizabeth a prominent suffragist 12 was the daughter of his paternal uncle Francis Bowes Stevens 13 and Elizabeth Callendar nee Harris Stevens 14 15 Together they were the parents of four children Elizabeth Callendar Elsie Stevens 1895 1920 who died unmarried at age 25 16 Caroline Bayard Stevens 1897 1971 who married Edward Beach Condon d 1942 17 a son Thomas G Condon of New York in 1921 18 They divorced in 1926 19 After their divorce he remarried to Mary McLeod nee Cameron Mayer a daughter of Duncan Ewen Cameron 20 and Caroline remarried to stockbroker and rancher Jack Speiden 21 Dorothy Pintard Stevens 22 who married architect Matthew Corry Fleming Jr son of Matthew C Fleming of 1060 Fifth Avenue in 1929 23 24 Richard Stevens Jr 1905 1985 9 25 who studied at the University of Oxford in England 26 He was a member of the Union Club the Racquet and Tennis Club and the New York Yacht Club 9 Stevens died at his home at Castle Point in Hoboken New Jersey on May 18 1919 1 His estate valued at 2 611 314 27 was held in trust for the benefit of his children 22 After his death his widow remarried bohemian writer and diplomat Josef Forman of Czechoslovakia in London in 1925 16 28 The marriage did not last long and in 1927 they divorced 26 29 After her divorce by final decree in Paris in May 1927 she resumed the use of the name Mrs Stevens Stevens 30 Descendants Edit Through his daughter he was the grandfather of Richard Stevens Condon 31 who married actress Anne Gerety 32 and Edward Beach Condon Jr who married Elizabeth Guest the sister of Andy Guest and daughter of U S Ambassador to Ireland Raymond R Guest in 1958 33 They divorced and she married George Stevens Jr in 1965 34 References Edit a b RICHARD STEVENS DIES AT CASTLE POINT HOME Had Been Since Brother s Death the Head of Family That Once Owned Hoboken PDF The New York Times May 19 1919 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Mrs Martha B Stevens Dead She Passes Away at Her Home Castle Point Hoboken The New York Times 2 April 1899 Retrieved 23 September 2017 Allen Oliver E The First Family of Inventors Archived 2010 01 13 at the Wayback Machine Invention amp Technology Magazine Fall 1987 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography J T White 1894 p 342 Retrieved 23 September 2017 Nancy Squire Dod librarycollections stevens edu Stevens Digital Collections Retrieved 23 September 2017 Officers and Graduates of Columbia College Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King s College General Catalogue 1754 1900 Columbia University 1900 p 562 Retrieved 2 February 2019 a b c d Stevens Richard hoboken pastperfectonline com Hoboken Historical Museum Retrieved 2 February 2019 The New Jersey Law Journal Honeyman amp Rowe 1919 p 192 Retrieved 2 February 2019 a b c d Stevens Indicator Alumni Association of Stevens Institute of Technology 1919 pp 207 208 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Our History Retrieved 2011 11 12 Christ Hospital was founded in 1872 with a radical mission Stevens Indicator Alumni and Undergraduates of Stevens Institute of Technology 1894 p 58 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Neuman Johanna 2017 Gilded Suffragists The New York Socialites who Fought for Women s Right to Vote NYU Press p 111 ISBN 9781479818280 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Francis Bowes Stevens librarycollections stevens edu Stevens Institute of Technology Retrieved 2 February 2019 Banta Theodore Melvin 1901 Sayre Family Lineage of Thomas Sayre a Founder of Southampton De Vinne Press p 127 Retrieved 2 February 2019 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 1880 p 120 Retrieved 2 February 2019 a b MRS STEVENS WEDS BOHEMIAN AUTHOR Eleven Drive in Decorated Cars to Registry Office for Her Marriage to Josef Forman RECEPTION AT HER HOME Bride Widow of Richard Stevens of Castle Point and Bridegroom Leave for the Continent PDF The New York Times October 13 1925 Retrieved 2 February 2019 EDWARD B CONDON New York Stock Broker Dies in Phoenix Ariz PDF The New York Times April 9 1942 Retrieved 2 February 2019 MISS STEVENS WEDS EDWARD B CONDON Daughter of Mrs Richard Stevens of Castle Point a Bride in Bernardsville PDF The New York Times July 1 1921 Retrieved 2 February 2019 DIVORCE GRANTED WIFE OF B H WARBURTON JR Paris Suit Charged Wanamaker s Grandson With Desertion Mrs E B Condon Gets Decree PDF The New York Times August 14 1926 Retrieved 2 February 2019 MRS EDWARD B CONDON PDF The New York Times August 19 1943 Retrieved 2 February 2019 JOHN G F SPEIDEN ARIZONA RANCHMAN New York Times August 8 1970 Retrieved February 18 2017 a b STEVENS WILL PROVED Children s Shares in Estate Not to be Paid Till They Are Forty PDF The New York Times June 6 1919 Retrieved 2 February 2019 DOROTHY STEVENS ENGAGED TO MARRY Daughter of Mrs R Stevens of Castle Point Hoboken to Wed M C Fleming Jr MISS ALEXANDER S TROTH Debutante of This Winter to Marry Roswell C Dunn of Baltimore Other Engagements PDF The New York Times February 9 1929 Retrieved 2 February 2019 DOROTHY FLEMING WED IN PRINCETON Member of the Stevens Family of Hoboken Married to E M Clorman Former Ensign PDF The New York Times May 15 1949 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Lee Francis Bazley 1910 Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey Lewis historical Publishing Company pp 199 202 Retrieved 2 February 2019 a b Mrs Elsie Stevens Forman Obtains Divorce From Second Husband London Cable Reveals PDF The New York Times February 22 1927 Retrieved 2 February 2019 RICHARD STEVENS ESTATE Total Assets 2 611 314 In Final Accounting of Executors PDF The New York Times March 28 1925 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Mrs Richard Stevens www loc gov Library of Congress Washington D C Retrieved 2 February 2019 Mrs Richard Stevens ca 1870 ca 1963 www nyhistory org New York Historical Society Retrieved 2 February 2019 MRS FORMAN GETS FINAL DIVORCE DECREE Cable Brings News From Paris Will Take Her Former Name Mrs Stevens Stevens PDF The New York Times May 4 1927 Retrieved 2 February 2019 ADRIAN G JOHNS IS MARRIED HERE Wears Gown of Ivory Italian Silk Satin at Wedding to Richard Stevens Condon PDF The New York Times January 6 1957 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Eliza Bergman Bride Of Michael S Condon Restaurant Consultant The New York Times 28 May 1978 Retrieved 2 February 2019 ELIZABETH GUEST IS WED IN CAPITAL Escorted by Her Father at Marriage to Edward Beach Condon T W A Official PDF The New York Times March 8 1958 Retrieved 2 February 2019 Times Special To The New York 6 July 1965 Mrs Elizabeth Guest Condon Married to George Stevens Jr The New York Times Retrieved 15 April 2017 Further reading EditRICHARD STEVENS at the Samuel C Williams Library at Stevens Institute of Technology Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Richard Stevens lawyer amp oldid 1155077999, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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