a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and Caroline Smith (née Bayard) Dod, who was the daughter of Samuel Bayard and granddaughter of Continental Congressman John Bubenheim Bayard. With Martha he had seven children: John Stevens IV (b. 1856), grandfather of Millicent Fenwick Edwin Augustus Stevens, Jr. (1858–1918), who married Emily Contee Lewis (1857–1931), the great-granddaughter of Lawrence Lewis, George Washington's nephew, and Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, Washington's adopted daughter and step-granddaughter. Caroline Bayard Stevens (b. 1859), who married Archibald Alexander and then H. Otto Wittpenn Julia Augusta Stevens (b. 1863) Robert Livingston Stevens II (b. 1864) Charles Albert Stevens (b. 1865) Richard Stevens (1868–1919), a Columbia College and Columbia Law School graduate who served as president of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company. Stevens died in Paris, France on August 7, 1868. Legacy In Steven's will, he left the bulk of his fortune to his wife and children, but also donated land adjoining the Stevens family estate, as well as $150,000 for the erection of a building and $500,000 as an endowment for the establishment of an "institution of learning". Because of the Stevens family's close ties with engineering, the will's executors decided it would be an institution devoted to the "mechanical arts". This institution became Stevens Institute of Technology, which opened its doors in 1870. The university has since expanded to an entire hilltop campus overlooking Manhattan, and the original building funded by Stevens' bequest, which was renamed Edwin A. Stevens Hall, continues to house much of the School of Engineering, the oldest of the university's four schools. References External links Stevens Institute of Technology, Biography 1795 births 1868 deaths People from Hoboken, New Jersey Members of the New York Yacht Club