Samuel Newton Stokes

Isaac married Barbara Hoyt in 1940 in Thomasville, Georgia, USA. Barbara was born on 26 Nov 1912 in New York, USA; died on 1 Nov 1965 in Bronx, New York, USA; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anson Phelps Stokes (13 April 1874 – 13 August 1958) was an American educator, historian, clergyman, author, philanthropist and civil rights activist.
Stokes was one of three men of the same name; his father was multimillionaire banker Anson Phelps Stokes, and his son was Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., an Episcopal bishop.

He was born in New Brighton on Staten Island, New York, to Anson and Helen Louisa Phelps Stokes, and attended Yale University, graduating in 1896 with a bachelor's degree. At Yale he was inducted into Skull and Bones. He then traveled, mostly in East Asia. In 1897, he entered the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to prepare for the priesthood, and received his bachelor of divinity degree in 1900, although it was not until 1925 that he formally became a priest.

In 1899, Stokes took the post of Secretary of Yale University, second in command to the university's president, and he also served as assistant rector of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1900 to 1918.[1] Stokes was a favorite to replace Arthur T. Hadley as president of Yale in 1921, and was said to have had the support of a majority of the Yale Corporation, but a vociferous minority insisted that an outsider was needed at the helm of the university, and Stokes was passed over for James Rowland Angell.

In December 1903, Stokes married Caroline Mitchell. They had three children: Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. (1905–1986), Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes II, both born in New Haven, Connecticut, and Olivia Phelps Stokes. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1933.

From 1924 to 1939, Stokes was resident canon at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. During this time, he became involved in many social, cultural, and ecclesiastical causes, and guided the philanthropy of the Phelps Stokes Fund (established in 1911) to improve the lives of African and American blacks. In 1936, he published a short biography of Booker T. Washington, which was an expanded version of a sketch he had written for the Dictionary of American Biography

Stokes saw all of his work as "fellowship in the gospel" (Philemon 1:5).

He died after a lengthy illness in his Lenox, Massachusetts home.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Phelps_Stokes_(philanthropist%29

Anson married Caroline Green Mitchell in Dec 1903. Caroline (daughter of Clarence Green Mitchell and Sarah Adams Lindley) was born on 10 Apr 1875 in Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA; died on 25 May 1962 in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA

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Anson Phelps Stokes (February 22, 1838 – June 28, 1913) was a wealthy American merchant, property developer, banker, genealogist and philanthropist. Born in New York City, he was the son of James Boulter and Caroline Stokes. His paternal grandfather was London merchant Thomas Stokes, one of the 13 founders of the London Missionary Society. His maternal grandfather, Anson Greene Phelps, was a New York merchant, born in Connecticut and descended from an old Massachusetts family.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Phelps_Stokes

Anson married Helen Louisa Phelps on 17 Oct 1865. Helen was born in 1846; died in 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Sonoma, California, USA
• Residence: 1850, New York, USA
• Residence: 1880, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA

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Clarence Green Mitchell was born to John W. Mitchell and Caroline Mitchell in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1826. He spent a short period of time in San Francisco, California, in the mid-1850s and received an appointment as Commissioner of Deeds for the State of California in New York in 1852. He married Sarah A. Lindley in New York in 1872. Clarence G. Mitchell worked as an attorney in his father's practice, Mitchells & Hinsdale (in partnership with Elizur B. Hinsdale). Clarence Mitchell played a significant role in the management of distributions from the Mary Green estate to his cousins Timothy Green Mitchell, Martha Louise Mitchell, and Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Green Mitchell. Clarence G. Mitchell died in South Carolina in 1893.

Clarence married Sarah Adams Lindley on 20 Nov 1872 in New York, USA. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Lindley and Lucy Virginia Allen) was born on 2 Nov 1839 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa; died on 2 Feb 1912 in New York, USA; was buried on 5 Feb 1912 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 1860
• Residence: 1910, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Will: 7 Feb 1912, New York, USA; Mrs Mitchell left an estate more than $200,000, which was divided among her 3 daughters. Caroline rec'd 85K, Lucy & Anna 60K each and stepson Clarence Blair Mitchell about 10K