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| birth_name = Martha Bayard Dod Stevens |
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1831|05|15}} |
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| birth_place = [[Princeton,_New_Jersey|Princeton]], New Jersey |
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1899|04|01|1831|05|15}} |
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| death_place = [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]], |
| death_place = [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]], New Jersey, U.S. |
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| religion = [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]] |
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| spouse = [[Edwin Augustus Stevens]] |
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'''Martha Bayard Dod Stevens''' (May 15, 1831 |
'''Martha Bayard Dod Stevens''' (May 15, 1831 – April 1, 1899) was a noted New Jersey [[philanthropist]] influential in advancing complementary educational pursuits. |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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==Contributions to Hoboken== |
==Contributions to Hoboken== |
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| ⚫ | Widowed at age 37 by her husband [[Edwin Augustus Stevens]], she had the responsibility of executing the establishment of a "school of higher learning" as per her husband's will and bequest. As a tribute to her family's curiosity and experimental ventures she chose to erect a school of engineering, [[Stevens Institute of Technology]].<ref name="Geoffrey W. Clark 2000, p. 31">Geoffrey Clark, ''History of Stevens Institute of Technology'' New Jersey: Jensen/Daniels, 2000, p. 31</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Widowed at age 37 by her husband [[Edwin Augustus Stevens]] she had the responsibility of executing the establishment of a "school of higher learning" as per her husband's will and bequest. As a tribute to her family's curiosity and experimental ventures she chose to erect a school of engineering, [[Stevens Institute of Technology]].<ref name="Geoffrey W. Clark 2000, p. 31">Geoffrey Clark, ''History of Stevens Institute of Technology'' New Jersey: Jensen/Daniels, 2000, p. 31</ref> |
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She drew upon a wide range of experiences and resources in order to further causes she believed in: education, healthy housing, and opportunities for working class women.<ref name="Huguenot Society of America, p. 142">Huguenot Society of America, ''Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America, Volume II'' New York: Huguenot Society of America, 1891, p.142</ref> Influenced by experiences in her own life including her own descent during childhood from middle-class comfort into single-parent poverty; her subsequent re-emergence into wealth through marriage; her active participation and acumen in overseeing the business affairs of the [[Hoboken_Land_and_Improvement_Company_Building|Hoboken Land & Improvement Company]], a Stevens family business; her role as a founding and lifetime [[trustee]] of Stevens Institute of Technology.<ref name="Stevens Institute of Technology History">{{cite web|url=http://www.stevens.edu/sit/about/sit.cfm |title=History: Stevens Institute of Technology |publisher=Stevens Institute of Technology |date= |accessdate=2014-04-18}}</ref> She used the inheritance of money and land from her late husband, Edwin Augustus Stevens liberally in pursuit of these causes. |
She drew upon a wide range of experiences and resources in order to further causes she believed in: education, healthy housing, and opportunities for working class women.<ref name="Huguenot Society of America, p. 142">Huguenot Society of America, ''Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America, Volume II'' New York: Huguenot Society of America, 1891, p.142</ref> Influenced by experiences in her own life including her own descent during childhood from middle-class comfort into single-parent poverty; her subsequent re-emergence into wealth through marriage; her active participation and acumen in overseeing the business affairs of the [[Hoboken_Land_and_Improvement_Company_Building|Hoboken Land & Improvement Company]], a Stevens family business; her role as a founding and lifetime [[trustee]] of Stevens Institute of Technology.<ref name="Stevens Institute of Technology History">{{cite web|url=http://www.stevens.edu/sit/about/sit.cfm |title=History: Stevens Institute of Technology |publisher=Stevens Institute of Technology |date= |accessdate=2014-04-18}}</ref> She used the inheritance of money and land from her late husband, Edwin Augustus Stevens liberally in pursuit of these causes. |
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Revision as of 04:45, 14 June 2017
Martha Bayard Stevens | |
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| Born | Martha Bayard Dod Stevens May 15, 1831 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | April 1, 1899 (aged 67) Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Spouse | Edwin Augustus Stevens |
| Children | John Stevens IV, Edwin A. Stevens, Jr, Caroline Bayard Stevens, Robert Livingston Stevens II, Charles Albert Stevens, Richard Stevens |
Martha Bayard Dod Stevens (May 15, 1831 – April 1, 1899) was a noted New Jersey philanthropist influential in advancing complementary educational pursuits.
Early life
She was born to Albert Baldwin Dod, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University and Caroline Smith Bayard.[1] Caroline Bayard was daughter of Samuel Bayard (1766-1840) and granddaughter of Continental Congressman John Bubenheim Bayard (1738-1808), sharing lineage with Peter Stuyvesant. Martha was a descendant of the Bayard family who emigrated from Holland to the United States before the Revolutionary War. The Bayards owned the greater part of the land now known as Hoboken and Weehawken, but lost after fleeing the country upon the surrender of the British Army. The land was then sold to Colonel John Stevens, father of Martha's future husband Edwin Augustus Stevens.[2] Martha would become the second wife of Edwin A. Stevens on August 22, 1854. The two would be married for fourteen years and be parents to seven children.
Contributions to Hoboken
Widowed at age 37 by her husband Edwin Augustus Stevens, she had the responsibility of executing the establishment of a "school of higher learning" as per her husband's will and bequest. As a tribute to her family's curiosity and experimental ventures she chose to erect a school of engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology.[3]
She drew upon a wide range of experiences and resources in order to further causes she believed in: education, healthy housing, and opportunities for working class women.[4] Influenced by experiences in her own life including her own descent during childhood from middle-class comfort into single-parent poverty; her subsequent re-emergence into wealth through marriage; her active participation and acumen in overseeing the business affairs of the Hoboken Land & Improvement Company, a Stevens family business; her role as a founding and lifetime trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology.[5] She used the inheritance of money and land from her late husband, Edwin Augustus Stevens liberally in pursuit of these causes.
Martha Stevens played a major role in conceiving, establishing, promoting and financing a range of social-service organizations in Hoboken. Her husband died in 1868 and Martha Stevens channeled her grief, energy and inheritance into support for the working poor by addressing basic life needs and underwriting education, Christian teachings and moral instruction.[6]
Martha Stevens was instrumental in the founding of the Church of the Holy Innocents as a free Episcopal church, a foundling hospital and birthing center at St Mary's Hospital; the Robert L. Stevens Fund for Municipal Research; manual training schools for both boys and young girls in Hoboken; the Hoboken Public Library and Manual Training School.[7]
Stevens is credited by the borough of Sea Bright, New Jersey with having been the person who suggested the borough's name.[8]
References
- ^ Hack, Charles (March 12, 2013). "Hoboken library to honor local philanthropist for Women's History Month". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
- ^ "Mrs.Martha B. Stevens Dead". The New York Times. April 2, 1899. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
- ^ Geoffrey Clark, History of Stevens Institute of Technology New Jersey: Jensen/Daniels, 2000, p. 31
- ^ Huguenot Society of America, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America, Volume II New York: Huguenot Society of America, 1891, p.142
- ^ "History: Stevens Institute of Technology". Stevens Institute of Technology. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
- ^ Archibald D. Turnbull, John Stevens, an American record New York: The Century Co, 1928
- ^ "Martha Bayard Stevens: Building a School, City and Helping the Poor". S.C. Williams Library, Stevens Institute of Technology. March 11, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
- ^ Sea Bright 2020 Recovery Plan, Borough of Sea Bright, December 2013. Accessed May 7, 2017. "The eventual naming of the community as 'Sea Bright' was actually attributed to a Mrs. Martha Stevens of Hoboken who frequented the area in the mid-1860s."