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William Earl Dodge Stokes
William Earle Dodge Stokes (1852 – May 18 1926) was an American multimillionaire responsible for developing much of New York's Upper West Side.
==Early life==
Born in New York City, he was the son of James Boulter and Caroline (née Phelps) Stokes; brother of Anson Phelps Stokes and Olivia Eggleston Phelps Stokes. One of his grandfathers was London merchant Thomas Stokes, one of the 13 founders of the London Missionary Society, and Anson Stokes later actively supported the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society and the American Peace Society. His other grandfather, Anson Greene Phelps, was a New York merchant, born in Connecticut and descended from an old Massachusetts family.〔() Web page titled "Grandfather, Father, & Son / The Three Anson Phelps Stokes: Anglo-American Philanthropists" at the ''ChickenBones: A Journal: for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes'' Web site, accessed March 5, 2007〕
As a young man Stokes started his career working in the family business, Phelps, Dodge & Company, a mercantile establishment founded by his grandfather Phelps〔 and his uncle, William Earle Dodge, Sr., in the 1830s.〔() "Ansonia" article in ''TIME'' magazine, May 25, 1929, accessed March 5, 2007〕 By the time that Stokes joined the company it had become a mining business. He was also a share holder in the Ansonia Clock Company. When his father died in August 1881, Stokes contested the will, sued his brother Anson for conspiring to throw him out of the family business, and gained a $1 million inheritance. He left Phelps Dodge and from 1885 to 1890 he developed real estate on the Upper West Side.〔() Stokes and the Building of the Upper West Side〕〔Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History By Andrew Alpern Published by Courier Dover Publications, (1992), pg 33 ISBN 0-486-27370-9〕
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