John Austin Stevens

John Austin Stevens (1827–1910) was an American historian, financier and civic organizer of New York. The son of a bank president, he graduated from Harvard in 1846, entered business, and served as secretary of the New York Chamber of Commerce during the Civil War, when he organized the Loyal National League and the Union Defense Committee. He founded the Magazine of American History in 1877 and edited it for several years, and was the principal founder of the Sons of the Revolution in 1876. His Albert Gallatin (1884), written for the American Statesmen series, was his chief book.