Olivia Stokes Hatch
Olivia Stokes Hatch (1908 – October 17, 1983) was an American philanthropist, clubwoman, and travel writer. Early life 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. Career Hatch traveled throughout the United States, Central, and South America, and in the Far East. She was co-author, with Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, of Olivia's African