Stokes Trust Corporation - Stock Certificate

Description: New Haven, CT. Rust stains at bottom but very nice. Anson Phelps Stokes was a member of Squadron A, N. Gk S. N. Y, of the Knickerbocker, University, Riding, City, Yale, St. Anthony, and Drug Trade clubs, and of the Yew York Zoological Society. He was a life member of the Charity Organization Society. He was president of the Stokes Trust Corporation of New Haven, which built St. Anthony Hall, the dormitory and club-house of the Sigma Chapter of the Delta Psi Fraternity. He was also a director of the Yale Alumni University Fund Association, and was actively interested in the welfare of his Alma Mater and his fraternity, as well as in the larger welfare of society in general. 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. Stokess early education was by tutors from the Union Theological Seminary who instructed him in mathematics, Latin and Greek. He then attended private schools in New York before joining the family business of Phelps, Dodge & Company in 1855 when he was 17. The company was a mercantile establishment founded in 1834 by his grandfather Phelps and his uncles, William Earle Dodge and Daniel James. His father James Stokes was also a partner at this time, having joined in 1847. The company began importing and trading in metal from England and exporting cotton in return, and eventually became a copper mining business. They also developed extensive interests in lumber, property and rail roads. In 1861, he became a partner in the company but left in 1878 to begin a banking business with his father and his father-in-law, Isaac Newton Phelps. The bank named Phelps, Stokes & Company, was disbanded when Stokes's father died in 1881. Stokes was also suffering from an eyesight problem at this time that threatened his vision. Despite this he was appointed temporary administrator of his father estate. The will was contested by James Stokes's daughter, Dora (Stokes) Dale, and her husband Henry and the matter was not settled until 1888. Stokes purchased land in New York and developed the Stokes Build Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.

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