| Birth Date: | 2 February 1868 |
| Birth Place: | North Andover, Massachusetts, US |
| Death Place: | Plainfield, New Jersey, US |
| Education: | Phillips Academy |
| Occupation: | Business executive |
| Children: | Robert |
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.[1]
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. His paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Stevens (1786–1865). His uncles were U.S. Representative Charles Abbot Stevens (1816–1892), Moses Tyler Stevens (1825–1907), and George Stevens (1832–1871).
He attended Phillips Academy, Andover.
After leaving Philips, he entered the dry goods commission business in Boston with Faulkner, Page & Co.[1]
In 1899, he established J.P. Stevens Textile Corporation in New York.[1] He was the president of Cotton Merchants' Association and Woolen Manufacturers' Association, a director of the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, the Plainfield Trust Company, M. T. Stevens & Sons Company, Stevens Linen Works, Arragon Baldwin Cotton Mills, Watts Mills, Duneen Mills, the Lawrence Manufacturing Company, and other textile companies.
A Republican, he served as an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey in 1920.
On February 12, 1895, married Edna Ten Broeck (1874–1964), the daughter of Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1838–1918) and Phebe (née Wilson) Ten Broeck (1846–1916). Together, they had three sons:[2]
He died on October 27, 1929, in Plainfield, New Jersey.[5]