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Anson was born on April 13, 1874 in New Brighton, New York, United States, the son of multimillionaire banker Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa Phelps.
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Anson Phelps Stokes
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After graduating from Yale University with a B. A. degree in 1896, Stokes spent a year traveling, mostly in the Far East.
In 1897 Stokes entered the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachussets, to prepare for the priesthood. Before he received his bachelor of divinity degree in 1900 (Yale granted him an honorary M. A. the same year), he agreed (1899) to serve as secretary of Yale University, but his clerical dimension found expression in his concurrent status as assistant rector (1900 - 1918) of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in New Haven. (While ordained to the diaconate in 1900, Stokes did not formally enter the priesthood until 1925. )
Career
As Yale's secretary from 1899 to 1921, Stokes was instrumental in increasing Yale's endowment and property, in winning support for the university's professional schools, and in securing Yale's position as a major center of higher learning on the national and the international scene.
He became in fact Yale's second in command; as such, he was deemed by many to be the logical successor to Arthur Twining Hadley as president. A deadlock in early balloting, however, led to the selection of James Rowland Angell. To leave him a free hand, Stokes resigned as secretary in 1921.
In 1924 Stokes began a second career as canon residentiary of the National Cathedral (Episcopal) in Washington, District of Columbia. In his fifteen years in the national's capital, he gave himself without stint to varied social, cultural, and ecclesiastical causes.
In 1936 he published a brief biography of Booker T. Washington (based on his earlier sketch in the DAB), and he served for a time as trustee of Tuskegee Institute, the first fifty years of which he also recorded in a Founder's Day historical address.
After one of his trips abroad, he offered his observations on race relations and education in East and South Africa (1934). During his Washington years and beyond, he guided the philanthropy of the Phelps Stokes Fund (established in 1911) toward improving the lot of African and American blacks. And in 1939, as he retired from the cathedral and the capital, he published Art and the Color Line: An Appeal to the Daughters of the American Revolution to Modify Their Rules So As to Permit Distinguished Negro Artists Such As Miss Marian Anderson to Be Heard in Constitution Hall (1939).
Upon retirement Stokes moved to the family farm in Lenox, Massachussets There he gave himself to two long-cherished and ambitious projects.
Following a long illness, he died in his home in Lenox, Massachussets.
Achievements
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Anson Phelps Stokes wrote over 2, 300 pages, where detailed the conflicts and tensions between the civil and the ecclesiastical estates from colonial beginnings to the middle of the twentieth century. Even his severest critic, Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, concluded that this painstaking study was absolutely essential to "every student of American religious history. " In 1952 Yale awarded him its Medal for Distinctive Service, noting that Stokes "more than any man living is the architect" of the present-day university.
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Joint-Metallism, a Plan by Which Gold and Silver Together, at Ratios Always Based on Their Relative Market Values, May Be Made the Metallic Basis of a
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Memorials of Eminent Yale Men; A Biographical Study of Student Life and University Influences During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Volume 2
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What Jesus Christ Thought of Himself; An Outline Study and Interpretation of His Self-Revelation in the Gospels
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Memorials of Eminent Yale Men; A Biographical Study of Student Life and University Influences During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Volume 1
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Joint-Metallism, a Plan by Which Gold and Silver Together, at Ratios Always Based on Their Relative Market Values, May Be Made the Metallic Basis of a
Views
He saw all his activity - whether philanthropy, education, travel, ecumenism, theological reflection, historical analysis, or social service - as facets of what he called "fellowship in the gospel. "
Membership
He was a member of the Yale-in-China Association.
Personality
Contemporaries testified as well to his moral courage, to his patient skill as mediator, to his selflessness and loyalty.
Connections
On December 30, 1903, he married Caroline Green Mitchell; they had three children, one of whom, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. , was Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts from 1956 to 1970.
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Religion
Episcopalian