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John Austin Stevens
1827–1910
A New York historian and writer with a deep interest in the city’s past, he helped turn local history into lively reading for a wider public. His work often focused on colonial and Revolutionary-era New York, blending research with a clear, readable style.
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Albert Gallatin
by John Austin Stevens
About the author
Born in 1827 and dying in 1910, John Austin Stevens Jr. was an American historian and author best known for writing about the history of New York. He is closely associated with the New-York Historical Society, where he delivered historical addresses and contributed to the study of the city’s early life.
His writing centered on subjects such as colonial New York, the American Revolution, and prominent figures from the city’s past. Rather than writing fiction, he built his reputation through historical essays, lectures, and books that helped preserve and popularize New York’s story for later readers.
Today, he is remembered as one of the nineteenth-century writers who treated local history as something vivid and worth sharing, not just storing away in archives.