Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . h right to buy on deathof owner. In 1895 I organized the Woodbridge Company, which owns Nos. 98, 100, 102, 104,106 William Street, 68, 70, 72, 74. 76 John Street, and Nos. 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 4Piatt Street, and also owns the Wyllys Building, Nos. 92 William Street and 34, 36, 38Piatt Street. Most of the Wyllys Building property I had bought for Newton, whose firmerected the building for the Wyllys Company, of which he was a large stockholder. TheWyllys Building was sold to the W
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . h right to buy on deathof owner. In 1895 I organized the Woodbridge Company, which owns Nos. 98, 100, 102, 104,106 William Street, 68, 70, 72, 74. 76 John Street, and Nos. 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 4Piatt Street, and also owns the Wyllys Building, Nos. 92 William Street and 34, 36, 38Piatt Street. Most of the Wyllys Building property I had bought for Newton, whose firmerected the building for the Wyllys Company, of which he was a large stockholder. TheWyllys Building was sold to the Woodbridge Company in 1908, deed dated 31st April. In 1902 I organized the Haynes Company, which owns No. 169, 171, 173, 175 FrontStreet, Nos. 26, 28, 30 Burling Slip, New York, and large property with seventeen housesat New Brighton, Staten Island. The stock of the Woodbridge Company and of the Haynes Company belongs to thefamily. The Dudley Company I sold for my wife, 2d December, 1901, to the Mutual 1:224] -^ o s 3^ £ id 2^ -s 2S -; K w z <s -g :^ g Phelps•helps St)s Stokeslelps Sto Is<; 2 C5 S 2. TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATOR I not only acted as Temporary Administrator, but I greatly pro-moted the interests of my fathers estate. Some matters in this admin-istratorship involved unusual and exasperating legal and businessdiscussions. I will mention one of these: Among other things, fathers estate held about 38,000 acres of pinelumber land in Michigan, much of w^hich I had bought for myfather. A portion was burned over, and I obtained from the surrogateauthority to sell the lumber on this burnt portion. Unless promptlylumbered, the worms would have greatly injured or destroyed it. I atlength made a sale of it to Hon. Russell A. Alger and his gentlemen would not buy it except on long time, and I realizedthat I might not be able to get permission from the court to sell on being satisfied that they were men of substance, I decided to takethe responsibilit
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