He was the son of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Phelps Stokes.
On December 18, 1903 as Anson Phelps Stokes, he married Caroline Green Mitchell at Somerset, New Jersey.
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. was born on April 13, 1874 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, the son of Anson Phelps Stokes, a New York banker and Helen Louisa Phelps Stokes. He spent summers at the family estate, Shadowbrook which later became a novitiate for the Jesuit order until it was destroyed by fire in March 1956. In 1896 he graduated with honors from Yale University where he served as class deacon. After graduation he spent a year touring the world. After his return he served as secretary of Yale University from 1899 to 1921. He graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He became a deacon and served as assistant minister of St. Paul's Church in New Haven until 1918. During World War I he organized the Army Educational Commission and was chair of the Board of Trustees of the American University Union in Europe. In 1919 he became a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. In 1925 he became a priest, one year after accepting the appointment as canon of the National Cathedral in Washington. From 1924 to 1939 while in the District of Columbia he organized the Committee on Religious Life to encourage Catholics, Protestants and Jews to work together. He served as president or chair for the Washington Committee on Housing, the Department of Social Welfare of the Washington Diocese, the Washington Family Service Association, the committee appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to prepare plans to organize the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority and the Interracial Commission named by the Washington Federation of Churches. He served as trustee of Tuskegee Institute and for many years was president of the Phelps-Stokes Fund devoted to educational work among African Americans. After his retirement in 1939 he returned to his Stockbridge home known as Brook Farm where he spent 13 years writing Church and State in the United States, 1787-1947, a three-volume set published in 1950. In 1941 Kenyon College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology. In 1951 he was honored as the Churchman of the Year. He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Princeton University and a doctor of canon law degree from the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1952 he was awarded the Yale University Medal for Distinctive Service for his service to the university which bears in every aspect of its manifold life the marks of his vision and energy and dedication to the Christian ideal.
He served as a member of the Board of Trustees or Directors of Wellesley College, the General Education Board and the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of International Education, the American Academy in Rome and the American Council on Education. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a founder of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and served as a trustee of the Brookings Institution. He died at age 84 on Wednesday, August 13, 1958 at his home in Lenox, Massachusetts after a long illness. At the time of his death he was president emeritus of the Phelps Stokes Foundation.
Survivors included his wife, Caroline Green Mitchell Stokes; two sons: the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Bishop of Massachusetts and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, a New York attorney and one daughter, Mrs. Olivia Hatch, wife of John Davis Hatch Jr., director of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; two brothers: J.G. Phelps Stokes of New York and Harold Phelps Stokes of 1401 Thirty-first Street Northwest in the District and two sisters: Mrs. Robert Hunter of San Francisco, California and Mrs. Ransom S. Hooker of Charleston, South Carolina. Services were held at Trinity Church in Lenox with the Rev. Ralph B. Putney, former rector officiating.
Sources: The Evening Star, Thursday, August 14, 1958 and Boston Herald, Friday, August 15, 1958.
On December 18, 1903 as Anson Phelps Stokes, he married Caroline Green Mitchell at Somerset, New Jersey.
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. was born on April 13, 1874 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, the son of Anson Phelps Stokes, a New York banker and Helen Louisa Phelps Stokes. He spent summers at the family estate, Shadowbrook which later became a novitiate for the Jesuit order until it was destroyed by fire in March 1956. In 1896 he graduated with honors from Yale University where he served as class deacon. After graduation he spent a year touring the world. After his return he served as secretary of Yale University from 1899 to 1921. He graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He became a deacon and served as assistant minister of St. Paul's Church in New Haven until 1918. During World War I he organized the Army Educational Commission and was chair of the Board of Trustees of the American University Union in Europe. In 1919 he became a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. In 1925 he became a priest, one year after accepting the appointment as canon of the National Cathedral in Washington. From 1924 to 1939 while in the District of Columbia he organized the Committee on Religious Life to encourage Catholics, Protestants and Jews to work together. He served as president or chair for the Washington Committee on Housing, the Department of Social Welfare of the Washington Diocese, the Washington Family Service Association, the committee appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to prepare plans to organize the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority and the Interracial Commission named by the Washington Federation of Churches. He served as trustee of Tuskegee Institute and for many years was president of the Phelps-Stokes Fund devoted to educational work among African Americans. After his retirement in 1939 he returned to his Stockbridge home known as Brook Farm where he spent 13 years writing Church and State in the United States, 1787-1947, a three-volume set published in 1950. In 1941 Kenyon College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology. In 1951 he was honored as the Churchman of the Year. He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Princeton University and a doctor of canon law degree from the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1952 he was awarded the Yale University Medal for Distinctive Service for his service to the university which bears in every aspect of its manifold life the marks of his vision and energy and dedication to the Christian ideal.
He served as a member of the Board of Trustees or Directors of Wellesley College, the General Education Board and the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of International Education, the American Academy in Rome and the American Council on Education. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a founder of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and served as a trustee of the Brookings Institution. He died at age 84 on Wednesday, August 13, 1958 at his home in Lenox, Massachusetts after a long illness. At the time of his death he was president emeritus of the Phelps Stokes Foundation.
Survivors included his wife, Caroline Green Mitchell Stokes; two sons: the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Bishop of Massachusetts and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, a New York attorney and one daughter, Mrs. Olivia Hatch, wife of John Davis Hatch Jr., director of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; two brothers: J.G. Phelps Stokes of New York and Harold Phelps Stokes of 1401 Thirty-first Street Northwest in the District and two sisters: Mrs. Robert Hunter of San Francisco, California and Mrs. Ransom S. Hooker of Charleston, South Carolina. Services were held at Trinity Church in Lenox with the Rev. Ralph B. Putney, former rector officiating.
Sources: The Evening Star, Thursday, August 14, 1958 and Boston Herald, Friday, August 15, 1958.
He was the son of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Phelps Stokes.
On December 18, 1903 as Anson Phelps Stokes, he married Caroline Green Mitchell at Somerset, New Jersey.
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. was born on April 13, 1874 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, the son of Anson Phelps Stokes, a New York banker and Helen Louisa Phelps Stokes. He spent summers at the family estate, Shadowbrook which later became a novitiate for the Jesuit order until it was destroyed by fire in March 1956. In 1896 he graduated with honors from Yale University where he served as class deacon. After graduation he spent a year touring the world. After his return he served as secretary of Yale University from 1899 to 1921. He graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He became a deacon and served as assistant minister of St. Paul's Church in New Haven until 1918. During World War I he organized the Army Educational Commission and was chair of the Board of Trustees of the American University Union in Europe. In 1919 he became a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. In 1925 he became a priest, one year after accepting the appointment as canon of the National Cathedral in Washington. From 1924 to 1939 while in the District of Columbia he organized the Committee on Religious Life to encourage Catholics, Protestants and Jews to work together. He served as president or chair for the Washington Committee on Housing, the Department of Social Welfare of the Washington Diocese, the Washington Family Service Association, the committee appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to prepare plans to organize the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority and the Interracial Commission named by the Washington Federation of Churches. He served as trustee of Tuskegee Institute and for many years was president of the Phelps-Stokes Fund devoted to educational work among African Americans. After his retirement in 1939 he returned to his Stockbridge home known as Brook Farm where he spent 13 years writing Church and State in the United States, 1787-1947, a three-volume set published in 1950. In 1941 Kenyon College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology. In 1951 he was honored as the Churchman of the Year. He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Princeton University and a doctor of canon law degree from the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1952 he was awarded the Yale University Medal for Distinctive Service for his service to the university which bears in every aspect of its manifold life the marks of his vision and energy and dedication to the Christian ideal.
He served as a member of the Board of Trustees or Directors of Wellesley College, the General Education Board and the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of International Education, the American Academy in Rome and the American Council on Education. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a founder of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and served as a trustee of the Brookings Institution. He died at age 84 on Wednesday, August 13, 1958 at his home in Lenox, Massachusetts after a long illness. At the time of his death he was president emeritus of the Phelps Stokes Foundation.
Survivors included his wife, Caroline Green Mitchell Stokes; two sons: the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Bishop of Massachusetts and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, a New York attorney and one daughter, Mrs. Olivia Hatch, wife of John Davis Hatch Jr., director of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; two brothers: J.G. Phelps Stokes of New York and Harold Phelps Stokes of 1401 Thirty-first Street Northwest in the District and two sisters: Mrs. Robert Hunter of San Francisco, California and Mrs. Ransom S. Hooker of Charleston, South Carolina. Services were held at Trinity Church in Lenox with the Rev. Ralph B. Putney, former rector officiating.
Sources: The Evening Star, Thursday, August 14, 1958 and Boston Herald, Friday, August 15, 1958.
On December 18, 1903 as Anson Phelps Stokes, he married Caroline Green Mitchell at Somerset, New Jersey.
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. was born on April 13, 1874 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, the son of Anson Phelps Stokes, a New York banker and Helen Louisa Phelps Stokes. He spent summers at the family estate, Shadowbrook which later became a novitiate for the Jesuit order until it was destroyed by fire in March 1956. In 1896 he graduated with honors from Yale University where he served as class deacon. After graduation he spent a year touring the world. After his return he served as secretary of Yale University from 1899 to 1921. He graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He became a deacon and served as assistant minister of St. Paul's Church in New Haven until 1918. During World War I he organized the Army Educational Commission and was chair of the Board of Trustees of the American University Union in Europe. In 1919 he became a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. In 1925 he became a priest, one year after accepting the appointment as canon of the National Cathedral in Washington. From 1924 to 1939 while in the District of Columbia he organized the Committee on Religious Life to encourage Catholics, Protestants and Jews to work together. He served as president or chair for the Washington Committee on Housing, the Department of Social Welfare of the Washington Diocese, the Washington Family Service Association, the committee appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to prepare plans to organize the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority and the Interracial Commission named by the Washington Federation of Churches. He served as trustee of Tuskegee Institute and for many years was president of the Phelps-Stokes Fund devoted to educational work among African Americans. After his retirement in 1939 he returned to his Stockbridge home known as Brook Farm where he spent 13 years writing Church and State in the United States, 1787-1947, a three-volume set published in 1950. In 1941 Kenyon College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology. In 1951 he was honored as the Churchman of the Year. He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Princeton University and a doctor of canon law degree from the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1952 he was awarded the Yale University Medal for Distinctive Service for his service to the university which bears in every aspect of its manifold life the marks of his vision and energy and dedication to the Christian ideal.
He served as a member of the Board of Trustees or Directors of Wellesley College, the General Education Board and the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of International Education, the American Academy in Rome and the American Council on Education. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a founder of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and served as a trustee of the Brookings Institution. He died at age 84 on Wednesday, August 13, 1958 at his home in Lenox, Massachusetts after a long illness. At the time of his death he was president emeritus of the Phelps Stokes Foundation.
Survivors included his wife, Caroline Green Mitchell Stokes; two sons: the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Bishop of Massachusetts and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, a New York attorney and one daughter, Mrs. Olivia Hatch, wife of John Davis Hatch Jr., director of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; two brothers: J.G. Phelps Stokes of New York and Harold Phelps Stokes of 1401 Thirty-first Street Northwest in the District and two sisters: Mrs. Robert Hunter of San Francisco, California and Mrs. Ransom S. Hooker of Charleston, South Carolina. Services were held at Trinity Church in Lenox with the Rev. Ralph B. Putney, former rector officiating.
Sources: The Evening Star, Thursday, August 14, 1958 and Boston Herald, Friday, August 15, 1958.
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