Mildred and Dr. Ransom Spafard Hooker, 1907, Stokes Records, Vol. 3, after p. 130 Born: February 13, 1881
Died: May 31, 1970
Married: Dr. Ransom S. Hooker
Children: Mildred Hooker Duncan
Mildred Evelyn Phelps Stokes Hooker, a daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes, wrote Camp Chronicles, recollections of life at the family camp on Birch Island on Upper St. Regis Lake.
She is buried in the cemetery at St. John's in the Wilderness Episcopal Church.
New York Times, July 19, 1903
Mildred Phelps Stokes Hooker's tombstone in the St. John's in the Wilderness Episcopal Church cemetery. …Miss Stokes, Miss Mildred S. Stokes, Miss Hilda G. Tiffany,1 Hugh Auchincloss,2 and P. L. Slade were at Saranac Inn recently on a coaching party, which started from the Upper St. Regis Lake…
New York Times, August 7, 1907
MISS STOKES TO WED DR. HOOKER IN FALL
The Bride-to-Be a Sister of J. G. Phelps Stokes and the Baroness Halkett.
ALL NEWPORT AT WHIST
Bridge Is Played Everywhere on Rainy Day—Big Attendance at the Golf Club Tournament.
The engagement of Miss Mildred E. P. Stokes, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, to Dr. Ransom S. Hooker of this city has become public, although it has not been formally announced. Dr. Hooker, whose residence and office are at 26 East Forty-eighth Street, is a son of H. M. Hooker of Cooperstown. Miss Stoke's is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stokes, and has one un-married sister, Miss Helen O. P. Stokes. She made her debut several years ago, and, like several other members of her family, she is much interested in work in the slums and the tenement-house districts, and recently fitted up several cottages as vacation homes for poor boys.
One of her sisters, Miss Sarah Stokes. married the Baron Halkett, and another, Miss Caroline Stokes, married Robert Hunter, a Settlement worker, who came here from Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are now in Europe, to remain a year or so.
J. G. Phelps Stokes, a brother of Miss Stokes, married Rose Pastor, a Settlement worker, and another brother, the Rev. A. P. Stokes, Jr., married Miss Carol G. Mitchell of Washington and lives in New Haven.
Miss Stokes is now with her family at their Adirondack camp, and Dr. Hooker left town on Monday to be their guest for a few days. The wedding will probably take place in the Autumn.
External links:
- The Adirondack Experience has 22 photographs from Camp Chronicles, and photographs of the manuscript pages.
Footnotes:
1. Daughter of Louis Comfort Tiffany
2. Father of Hugh Auchincloss and grandfather of Jaqueline Kennedy.
