{{short description|American politician and textile manufacturer (1825-1907)}} {{for|the Scottish philanthropist|Moses Stevens of Bellahouston}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Moses T. Stevens | honorific_suffix = | image =Moses T. Stevens.png
|office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] |term_start1 = March 4, 1891 |term_end1 = March 3, 1895 |predecessor1 = [[Frederic T. Greenhalge]] |successor1 = [[William Shadrach Knox]] |constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 8th congressional district|8th district]] (1891–93)<br>[[Massachusetts's 5th congressional district|5th district]] (1893–95)
| state_senate2 = Massachusetts | district2 = Third Essex<ref>{{cite book|author=Massachusetts General Court|title=Journal of the Senate|publisher=Wright & Potter State Printers|location=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]|year=1868|issn=0732-197X}}</ref> | term_start2 = 1868 | term_end2 = 1870 | preceded2 = | succeeded2 =
| office3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | district3 = | term_start3 = 1861 | term_end3 = 1862 | preceded3 = | succeeded3 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1825|10|10|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]] (now [[North Andover, Massachusetts|North Andover]]), Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1907|3|25|1825|10|10|mf=y}} | death_place = North Andover, Massachusetts, U.S. | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = Charlotte Osgood Stevens | signature = Signature of Moses Tyler Stevens (1825–1907).png }} <!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000884. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->
'''Moses Tyler Stevens''' (October 10, 1825 – March 25, 1907) was an American textile manufacturer and a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
==Biography== Moses Tyler Stevens was born in [[North Andover, Massachusetts|North Andover]] (then a part of [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]]), [[Essex County, Massachusetts]] on October 10, 1825, the son of textile manufacturer Nathaniel Stevens.<ref name=Biographical>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/?id=W3MWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP419 |title=Biographical History of Massachusetts |volume=IV |editor-first=Samuel Atkins |editor-last=Eliot |editor-link=Samuel A. Eliot (minister) |publisher=Massachusetts Biographical Society |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=<!-- no page numbers --> |year=1913 |access-date=2022-06-06 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He was also the brother of [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] [[Charles A. Stevens|Charles Abbot Stevens]] and a cousin of U.S. Representative [[Isaac Stevens|Isaac Ingalls Stevens]].
Stevens attended Franklin Academy, a public school in North Andover. He graduated from [[Phillips Academy, Andover]], in 1842. He attended [[Dartmouth College]] in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]] for one year in 1842 and 1843. Stevens joined his father's woolen goods manufacturing business after leaving college and became a partner in the business in 1850 under the name Nathaniel Stevens & Son in North Andover.
Stevens married Charlotte Emeline Osgood in 1853. The Stevenses had three sons and three daughters.
Stevens served as member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1861. He served in the [[Massachusetts Senate|Massachusetts State Senate]] in 1868. He also served as president of the [[Andover National Bank]].
In 1876 Stevens dissolved Nathaniel Stevens & Son. Stevens and his brothers continued the business separately. His three sons, Nathaniel, Samuel, and Moses, became partners in the business in 1886 and the firm became M. T. Stevens & Sons.
Stevens was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[52nd United States Congress|Fifty-second]] and [[53rd United States Congress|Fifty-third]] Congresses (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895). He served as a member of the [[United States House Committee on Ways and Means|House Ways and Means Committee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Legacy/fullcomm/107former.htm|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080227015851/http://waysandmeans.house.gov/legacy/fullcomm/107former.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 27, 2008|title=Members of the Committee on Ways and Means 1st Through 106th Congress|access-date=2007-11-01}}</ref> He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894 to the [[54th United States Congress|Fifty-fourth]] Congress.
After retiring from Congress, Stevens resumed his interests in the manufacturing business. He died in North Andover on March 25, 1907, and was interred in Ridgewood Cemetery.<ref name=Biographical/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103273628/ex-congressmans-funeral/ |title=Ex-Congressman's Funeral |newspaper=[[The Meriden Daily Journal]] |location=North Andover, Massachusetts |page=9 |date=1907-03-28 |access-date=2022-06-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> His estate, [[Osgood Hill]], was saved from destruction and is now owned by the town of North Andover. Now listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], it serves as a conference center.
==See also== * [[89th Massachusetts General Court (1868)]]
==References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|S000884}} *{{cite book|last=Cutter|first=William R.|title=Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts Volume IV|pages=1808–1809|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing|location=[[New York City|New York]]|year=1908|oclc=4292370}}
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