page_title: Olivia Stokes Hatch
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Olivia Stokes Hatch / Early life
context_page_description: Olivia Stokes Hatch was an American philanthropist, clubwoman, and travel writer.
context_section_description: Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of the educator and philanthropist Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes and Caroline Mitchell Phelps Stokes. She was a member of an extended family of notables: Her grandfather Anson Phelps Stokes was a banker, and her brother, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. was an Episcopal bishop. Her great-grandfather James Boulter Stokes and her great-great-grandfather, Anson Green Phelps were Connecticut businessmen. Her great-aunt was Caroline Phelps Stokes was also a wealthy benefactor, mainly of educational causes; real estate developer William Earl Dodge Stokes, socialist writer James Graham Phelps Stokes, and architect Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes were among her uncles. Her maternal great-grandfather was Daniel Lindley, an American missionary in South Africa, and her mother's sister, Anna V. S. Mitchell, did relief work in France during World War I and afterwards among refugees in Istanbul.
  Olivia Stokes attended Foxcroft School and Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1930.
caption: A 1911 portrait titled "Olivia", painted by Lydia Field Emmet; identified as a portrait of Olivia Stokes Hatch, and donated to the National Gallery of Art by her.[1][2]
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