John Peters Stevens

John Peters Stevens (February 2, 1868 – October 27, 1929) was the CEO of the J. P. Stevens Textile Corporation. He was the president of Cotton Merchants' Association and Woolen Manufacturers' Association.

Early life Stevens was born on February 2, 1868, in North Andover, Massachusetts, to Horace Nathaniel Stevens (1837–1876) and Susan Elizabeth (née Peters) Stevens (1835–1871). He was the seventh generation descendant of John Stevens, who came to the United States in 1638.

John Peter Stevens, Jr. (1897–1976), who married Edith Stevens (1899–1989). President of the Edison Township Board of Education from 1943 to 1958, President of John P. Stevens and Co. and namesake of J.P. Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (1899–1983), who married Dorothy Goodwin Whitney (1901–1988) Nathaniel Stevens, II (1900-1966), who married Ruth Alden Bovey [Stevens Family Records, Tenth Edition, 1993]

He died on October 27, 1929, in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Legacy J.P. Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey, was named in his son's honor