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Title: Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Furman, Franklin De Ronde, 1870- ed
Subjects: Stevens family Morton, Henry, 1836-1902 Stevens Institute of Technology
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J., Stevens institute of technology
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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time could have been finished and could havedestroyed an entire fleet of the vessels of that day,— then there is reason enoughevident Avhy the chapter mentioned should be written and presented to the public. The facts to which I have referred above are so little known among the pub-lic at large that many, no doubt, will find themselves hardly able to accept themat first; but the evidence available is abundant, as I shall make clear presently.The main reason why the work of John Stevens and his sons has not been prom-inent in the public eye is that all these men were disposed rather to avoid thanto seek notoriety, and were, moreover, possessed of such considerable wealth iThis article was written by T. C. Martin E.E., at the instance of President Morton, for use in connec-tion with the exercises of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary. It was published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine forMay, 1898. More detailed records on which the statements in this article rest may be found on pp. io6 et seq.
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Colonel John Stevens From a Marble Bust at Castle Point A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS 83 that they could carry out their projects with httle or no outside financial assist-ance, and thus had no reason for bringing their plans before the public. The close of February, 1897, beginning with the i8th of that month, wit-nessed the celebrations attendant upon the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Stev-ens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, N. J., created by the generosity of Mr.Edwin A. Stevens. The initial feature of this celebration was a banquet of threehundred covers at the Hotel Waldorf, at which the speakers and their topicsbrought out in sequence the history of the institution as well as the great workof the three engineers to whom for more than a century was due no small part ofAmerican advance in the arts of peace and war. That work it is the object of thispaper to set forth. Col. John Stevens was born in New York, in 1749, of English lineage. Hewas a graduate of Kings College (now Columbia

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