Anson Phelps Stokes
Born April 13, 1874 New Brighton, Staten Island, New York
Died August 13, 1958 (aged 84)
Episcopal Theological School Spouse Caroline Mitchel Alma mater Yale University
Anson Phelps Stokes (April 13, 1874 – August 13, 1958) was an American educator, historian, clergyman, author, philanthropist and civil rights activist.
Stokes was born in New Brighton on Staten Island, New York, to Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (née Phelps) Stokes. He shared his name with his father, the prominent banker, and his son, Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., an Episcopal bishop.
He 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. 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.
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.
In December 1903, Stokes married Caroline Mitchell. They had three children, all born in New Haven, Connecticut
He died after a lengthy illness in his Lenox, Massachusetts, home.
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Joseph Marshall Flint (1872-1944) was Yale University's first full-time professor of surgery. He was also the commanding officer of Yale Mobile Hospital Unit 39 during World War I.
Education and career:
Received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1900
Coached college football at Butler University and Stevens Point Normal School
Served as a surgeon in the United States Military during World War I
Became Yale's first full-time professor of surgery in 1907
Served as chief surgeon at New Haven Hospital
Contributions to medicine:
Invented mobile medical units during World War I
Known for bringing assembly line style procedures to the medical process
Was trained as a research anatomist
Some at Yale did not consider him their top choice for professor of surgery because of his training as an anatomist