Richard Stevens (lawyer)

Richard Stevens (May 23, 1868 – May 18, 1919)[1] was an attorney and real estate developer in Hoboken, New Jersey which his family owned all of at one time.

Among his large and prominent family were uncles Robert Livingston Stevens and John Cox Stevens, founder of the New York Yacht Club and a driving force in the design of the yacht America and the competition for the America's Cup.

He also served as a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken and U.S. Commissioner of Jurors for the District of New Jersey.

In addition, he was the treasurer of Christ Hospital (associated with the Episcopal Diocese of Newark),[10] and president of the United Aid Society.

[22] After his death, his widow remarried "bohemian writer" and diplomat Josef Forman of Czechoslovakia in London in 1925.

[30] Through his daughter, he was the grandfather of Richard Stevens Condon,[31] who married actress Anne Gerety,[32] and Edward Beach Condon Jr., who married Elizabeth Guest, the sister of Andy Guest and daughter of U.S.