He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then entered Princeton University, graduating with an A.B.
Among the advantages was superior braking of the vessels, since paddle wheel propulsion systems could not effectively be reversed to slow the craft.
Prior to propeller drives, double ended ferries had less usable width because of side wheel propulsion.
Cox & Stevens began in 1905 as a yacht design and commercial brokerage in New York City.
Together, they had eight children:[3] Stevens died in 1918, six days before his 60th birthday, in Washington, D.C., where he was serving as a shipyard inspector under appointment by President Woodrow Wilson.