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[[File:Helen Olivia Phelps Stokes.png|thumb|458x458px|[https://americanaristocracy.com/people/helen-olivia-phelps-stokes#bio Helen Olivia Phelps Stokes]]] | |||
'''Born:''' June 8, 1870 | |||
'''Died:''' December 27, 1945 | |||
''' | '''Helen Olivia Phelps Stokes''' was a daughter of [[Anson Phelps Stokes]]. She became an artist, and a pioneer of welfare reform, the Phelps Stokes children having embraced socialism. | ||
----''New York Times'', December 28, 1945 | |||
'''HELEN O.P. STOKES, WELFARE WORKER''' | |||
'''Pioneer in Field Here Dies in Vermont--Gave 2 Buildings to Rivington Association''' | |||
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. | |||
BENNINGTON, Vt., Dec. 27- Miss Helen Olivia Phelps Stokes, a:- pioneer in the. field of welfare work in New York, died in her home here this morning at the age of 76.. A victim of a severe form of, arthritis, she had been confined to her room mostly for the last twelve years. | |||
' | Born in New York, a daughter of the-late Anson and Mrs. Helen Louisa Phelps Stokes of New York and Lenox, Mass., she attended the Brearley. School and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. Soon after completing her education she became interested in helping the working girls of the city, both through the money she had inherited and the active part she played on many committees. | ||
' | Miss Stokes was a member of the Women's Trade Union League and, during the shirtwaist strikes of the days before the first World War, appeared often in court to defend girl pickets who had been arrested, sometimes paying their fines out of her own pocket. | ||
More recently she had been active in the American Civil Liberties Union. She was on the board of many similar bodies, and took part in settlement work in the congested tenement areas. In 1910 she gave to the Rivington Neighborhood Association two buildings on the lower East Side. Miss Stokes made painting an avocation, and maintained her own studio in New York for many years. Surviving are three brothers, the Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes of Lenox; Harold Phelps Stokes of Washington, a former editor on the staff of THE NEW YORK TIMES, and J. G. Phelps Stokes of New York, and three sisters, Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt of Darien, Conn., Mrs. Robert Hunter of Santa. Barbara, Calif., and Mrs. Ransom S. Hooker of Charleston, S. C. | |||
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Latest revision as of 11:39, 23 March 2026
Born: June 8, 1870
Died: December 27, 1945
Helen Olivia Phelps Stokes was a daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes. She became an artist, and a pioneer of welfare reform, the Phelps Stokes children having embraced socialism.
New York Times, December 28, 1945
HELEN O.P. STOKES, WELFARE WORKER
Pioneer in Field Here Dies in Vermont--Gave 2 Buildings to Rivington Association
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
BENNINGTON, Vt., Dec. 27- Miss Helen Olivia Phelps Stokes, a:- pioneer in the. field of welfare work in New York, died in her home here this morning at the age of 76.. A victim of a severe form of, arthritis, she had been confined to her room mostly for the last twelve years.
Born in New York, a daughter of the-late Anson and Mrs. Helen Louisa Phelps Stokes of New York and Lenox, Mass., she attended the Brearley. School and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. Soon after completing her education she became interested in helping the working girls of the city, both through the money she had inherited and the active part she played on many committees.
Miss Stokes was a member of the Women's Trade Union League and, during the shirtwaist strikes of the days before the first World War, appeared often in court to defend girl pickets who had been arrested, sometimes paying their fines out of her own pocket.
More recently she had been active in the American Civil Liberties Union. She was on the board of many similar bodies, and took part in settlement work in the congested tenement areas. In 1910 she gave to the Rivington Neighborhood Association two buildings on the lower East Side. Miss Stokes made painting an avocation, and maintained her own studio in New York for many years. Surviving are three brothers, the Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes of Lenox; Harold Phelps Stokes of Washington, a former editor on the staff of THE NEW YORK TIMES, and J. G. Phelps Stokes of New York, and three sisters, Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt of Darien, Conn., Mrs. Robert Hunter of Santa. Barbara, Calif., and Mrs. Ransom S. Hooker of Charleston, S. C.