Stevens Institute of Technology

first president, Henry Morton. Dod became the first President of the Board of Trustees serving until his death in 1907.
The land now occupied by Stevens Institute of Technology was purchased at public auction by John Stevens in 1784. John Stevens was a Revolutionary War Colonel, Continental Congressman, first Treasurer of New Jersey, father of American patent law, steamboat and rail locomotive engineer, and father to Edwin. John built his estate on Castle Point, the Stevens Castle which served as the home to the Stevens family until 1917 when the building was offered to the U.S. Government for WW1 while the family resided in another building on the estate. The Stevens Mansion was then acquired by the university and used as an administrative building until 1959 when the Wesley J. Howe Center was built on its location.
The Stevens family - "America's First Family of inventors" - was influential in founding the university, its early leadership as trustees, and the Institute's surrounding community, Hoboken. Edwin …