Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . ROBERT FULTON Company, of the Ansonia Clock Company,^ and of the Ansonia Land& Water Company. At the Phelps place, on East River, my grandfather used to enter-tain many prominent New Englanders,^ including ministers, mission-aries, etc. Mrs. Sigourney, the poet. Rev. Jeremiah Evarts (fatherof Secretary of State William M. Evarts), Rev. Drs. Goodell andSchauffler, missionaries to Turkey, and a number of others made theirhome there when they were in New York. William M. Evarts alsovis
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . ROBERT FULTON Company, of the Ansonia Clock Company,^ and of the Ansonia Land& Water Company. At the Phelps place, on East River, my grandfather used to enter-tain many prominent New Englanders,^ including ministers, mission-aries, etc. Mrs. Sigourney, the poet. Rev. Jeremiah Evarts (fatherof Secretary of State William M. Evarts), Rev. Drs. Goodell andSchauffler, missionaries to Turkey, and a number of others made theirhome there when they were in New York. William M. Evarts alsovisited there. I remember that Mr. Timothy Dwight, a grandson of the presidentof Yale College (the first president of that name), was stopping atgrandfathers when I was a child. He was interested with grand-father, in 1845, in getting the charter for the Naugatuck Railroad andin building the road, of which he was the first president. I remember hearing my parents tell of a dinner at GrandfatherPhelpss at which they were present in 1841, soon after my uncleAnson, then twenty-three years of age, returned fro
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