Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond (Mary Picton Stevens)
…o had settled before the Revolutionary War, hob-nobbed with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, founded the city of Hoboken, pioneered steam travel by boat and by train, and Mary’s grandfather, Edwin Augustus Stevens, founded the Stevens Institute of Technology. Much of Mary’s childhood was spent at the family estate of Castle Point, which was razed in 1959 by the Stevens Institute of Technology to make way for a modern structure. When Mary w…
