Stephen Hyatt Pell

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Stephen Hyatt Pell | image = Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell (1874–1950).png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell | birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|2|3}} | birth_place = Flushing Meadows, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|6|22|1874|2|3}} | death_place = Ticonderoga, New York, US | burial_place = | occupation = Banker | awards = | spouse = Sarah Gibbs Thompson | children = | education = | signature = | party = }} '''Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell''' (February 3, 1874 – June 22, 1950) was an American banker, the son of John Howland Pell and Caroline Hyatt.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

==Biography== He was born in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York.<ref name="toc1">{{cite news |title=Pell, Stephen Hyatt Pelham, 1874-1950 |url=https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/people/3121 |publisher=Ticonderoga Online Collections}}</ref> Pell was married to Sarah Gibbs Thompson, the daughter of Robert Means Thompson, a mining investor and operator founder of the International Nickel Company,<ref name=nyt1>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/04/02/101944691.pdf|title=International Nickel Co|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 2, 1902|accessdate=2025-07-13|ref=NYTinc}}</ref> the forerunner of Vale Inco. Pell was a history enthusiast and collector who restored the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga.<ref name=fti1>{{cite book | title=Fort Ticonderoga | first=Carl R. | last=Crego | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | year=2004 | isbn=0-7385-3502-8 | page=95 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ttsL0tghIrIC}}</ref>

He fathered two sons: Robert Thompson Pell (b. 1902) and John Howland Gibbs Pell (b. 1904).<ref name="mm1">{{cite news |title=The Massachusetts Magazine: Devoted to Massachusetts History, Genealogy, Biography, Volume 10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYY-AAAAYAAJ}}</ref>

From 1944 to 1949 Pell served as president of the American Numismatic Society.<ref name=ans1>{{cite web |url=http://www.numismatics.org/Archives/Pellbio |title=Stephen H.P. Pell (1874-1950) |accessdate=2010-04-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521150505/http://numismatics.org/Archives/Pellbio |archivedate=2011-05-21 |publisher=American Numismatic Society }}</ref>

He died in Ticonderoga, New York on June 22, 1950.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-express-stephen-pell-ti/176542027/ |title=Stephen Pell, Ticonderoga Restorer, Dead |newspaper=Buffalo Courier-Express |place=Ticonderoga, New York |agency=AP |page=7 |date=1950-06-22 |publication-date=1950-06-23 |access-date=2025-07-13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==See also== * Fort Ticonderoga

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==Sources== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604225630/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_37.htm USGenNet: Stephen Hyatt Pell]

==Bibliography== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=KYY-AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22stephen+hyatt+pell%22&pg=PA151 Massachusetts Magazine: Pell Family Tree] *[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5oUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=134FAAAAIBAJ&dq=stephen-hyatt-pelham-pell&pg=847%2C5405229 Schenectady Gazette: S.H.P. Pell Honorary Doctorate Union College] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110521150505/http://numismatics.org/Archives/Pellbio Biography at the American Numismatic Society]

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