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Anson Phelps Stokes

Anson Phelps Stokes

Male 1874 - 1958  (84 years)

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  • Name Anson Phelps Stokes 
    Birth 13 Apr 1874  New Brighton, Staten Island, Ne York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 13 Aug 1958  Lenox, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 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
    Person ID I407  Gibbs Family Tree
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2020 

    Father Anson Phelps Stokes,   b. 22 Feb 1838, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1913, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Helen Louisa Phelps,   b. 1846   d. 1930 (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage 17 Oct 1865 
    Family ID F2278  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Caroline Green Mitchell,   b. 10 Apr 1875, Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 May 1962, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage Dec 1903 
    Children 
    +1. Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr.,   b. 11 Jan 1905, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Nov 1986, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    +2. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, II,   b. 10 Oct 1906, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1998, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
    +3. Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes,   b. 9 Jan 1908, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Oct 1983, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F126  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2020 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 13 Apr 1874 - New Brighton, Staten Island, Ne York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 13 Aug 1958 - Lenox, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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