Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . usin, Mrs. Howell, lived in the oldCommodore Perry house near Birmingham. Donald Grant Mitchell,Ik Marvel,^ lived in Woodbridge, near the upper road betweenAnsonia and New Haven. My father was the first president of the Ansonia Brass & Copper * Her portrait was painted by Rand in London in 1840, after she had had a seriousillness, following the birth of my sister Elizabeth. My fathers portrait was painted atthe same time. See plates at p. 124. ^Mother writes in her diary, March 2, 1


Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . usin, Mrs. Howell, lived in the oldCommodore Perry house near Birmingham. Donald Grant Mitchell,Ik Marvel,^ lived in Woodbridge, near the upper road betweenAnsonia and New Haven. My father was the first president of the Ansonia Brass & Copper * Her portrait was painted by Rand in London in 1840, after she had had a seriousillness, following the birth of my sister Elizabeth. My fathers portrait was painted atthe same time. See plates at p. 124. ^Mother writes in her diary, March 2, 1862: In September, on my return from Newport, I had a fall from a wagon at Derby depot, whichthreatened serious consequences; but I trust they have been averted and that I have learnedsomething profitable from the event, viz., to have more in mind the necessity of being preparedfor sudden death. Donald Grant Mitchell was the historian of the Woodbridge family. See note 4, p. copy of this important work, is in my library and contains much of interest regarding thefamily of my grandfather Phelps. D5on.


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