Anson Phelps Stokes

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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]

1. Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. was born on 11 Jan 1905 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 7 Nov 1986 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Bronx, New York, USA.
2. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, II was born on 10 Oct 1906 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 4 Aug 1998 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Bronx, New York, USA.
3. Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes was born on 9 Jan 1908 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Oct 1983 in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, 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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James Boulter Stokes (January 31, 1804 – August 1, 1881) was the third son-in-law of Anson Greene Phelps to become a partner in the mercantile business of Phelps, Dodge & Co.
Stokes's parents, Thomas and Elizabeth (née Boulter) Stokes, emigrated from England to America in 1798. They settled in an area north of New York on the Hudson River near Sing Sing. Financial difficulties forced them to move to New York, where Thomas started businesses importing fine woolen cloth, selling coal and investing in property. Thomas was a religious man and joined the New York Peace Society and the New York Tract Society, becoming acquainted with Anson Greene Phelps and David Low Dodge. He died in 1832 at which time James and his brother Edward Halesworth Stokes took over the businesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boulter_Stokes

James married Caroline Olivia Phelps on 12 Apr 1837. Caroline was born on 30 Nov 1812 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 9 Mar 1881 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA; was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]