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]

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Anson Phelps Stokes, the 3rd (January 11, 1905 - November 7, 1986) was the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts from 1956 to 1970.
He was the son of Anson Phelps Stokes and grandson of Anson Phelps Stokes of Phelps Dodge. An alumnus of St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), he received a BA from Yale in 1927, a BD from the Episcopal Theological School (now the Episcopal Divinity School), a DD from Kenyon College and later degrees from Columbia, Berkeley Divinity School, and Suffolk University. He was ordained deacon in 1932 and priest on March 19, 1933 in St Mark's Church, Shreveport, Louisiana.

He was married to Hope Procter of the family which founded Procter & Gamble.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Phelps_Stokes_(bishop)

Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the retired Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, died after a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Bishop Stokes was an early opponent of the Vietnam War and a leader in civil rights activities and the ecumenical movement in the state.
In 1965, he declined an award from the American Legion because it had canceled a similiar award to Rabbi Roland Gittelshon, a sponsor of a Washington demonstration protesting American policy in Vietnam.
He retired in 1970 after 14 years as head of the diocese of 200 churches.
Bishop Stokes liked to describe his role as ''relator-bishop,'' declaring, ''The bishop must, through the diocesan life, be a relator of men to each other.''
He served as chairman of the Massachusetts Council of Churches' Commission on Church and Race, formed in 1960 to help bring about ''the reconciliation of all races.''
Surviving are his wife, the former Hope Procter; two daughters, Carol Fremont-Smith, of Auburn, Me., and Mary Stokes of Stockbridge, Mass.; a brother, Isaac Stokes of Underhill, Vt.; and two grandchildren.
Services will be at 2:30 P.M. Monday at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral here.

Anson married Hope ProcterStockbridge, Massachusetts, USA. Hope (daughter of Rodney Proctor and Beatrice M Sterling) was born on 23 Feb 1917 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA; died in 2006 in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Bronx, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA

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Olivia Stokes Hatch (1908 – October 17, 1983) was an American philanthropist, clubwoman, and travel writer.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Stokes_Hatch

Olivia married John Davis Hatch, Jr. in 1939. John was born in 1907; died in 1996. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]