Colonel Robert Livingston Stevens (October 18, 1787 – April 20, 1856) was an American inventor and steamship builder who served as president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in the 1830s and 1840s.

[3] His aunt Mary Stevens married Robert R. Livingston, the first Chancellor of the State of New York.

[4] In 1807, the Stevens and their father built the Phœnix, a steamboat which became the first to navigate the ocean successfully when she traveled from New York City to the Delaware River in 1809.

[6] Robert Stevens applied the wave line, concave waterlines on a steamboat hull, in 1808, as well as other improvements to shipbuilding.

[5] When the John Bull steam locomotive arrived on the C&A property, it was originally named Stevens in his honor.