Olivia Egleston Phelps was an American philanthropist who was the wife of businessman Anson Green Phelps, co-founder of the Phelps Dodge Company.
Phelps Egleston family tree published in Stokes Records 1910
The Anson Greene Phelps house New York on the East river, formally owned by Henry A. Coster, the Dutch merchant.
Anson Green Phelps was an American entrepreneur and business man from Connecticut. Beginning with a saddlery business, he founded Phelps, Dodge & Co. in 1833 as an export-import business with his sons-in-law as partners, William E. Dodge in NYC and Daniel James based in Liverpool, England. His third son-in-law, James Boulter Stokes, became a partner some years later.
Anson Green Phelps, industrialist and philanthropist