Phelps, Abner – Phelps, Thomas Stowell
Phelps, Abner
physician, author, was born Sept. 5, 1799, in Belchertown, Mass. He published the Crucifixion of Christ, Anatomically Considered. He died Feb. 4, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
Phelps, Alfred C
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 4, 1842, in Woodville, Miss. During the civil war he served as first lieutenant of company I, ninetythird United States colored infantry, and in 1877 was elected a member of the state legislature of Colorado. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been a member of the firm of Benedict and Phelps of Denver, Col., of which city he was city attorney in 1877-78.
Y PHELPS, MRS. ALMIRA (HART) (LINCOLN), educator, author, was born July 15, 1793, in Berlin, Conn. She was a noted educator of Baltimore who published many text-books on the natural sciences. Among her works are, Geology for Beginners; Christian Households; Ida Norman, a tale; Familiar Lectures on Botany; and Hours with My Pupils. She died July 15, 1884, in Baltimore, Md.
Phelps, Amos Augustus
clergyman, author, was born in 1805 in Farmington, Conn. He edited the Emancipation, and was secretary of the American Anti-Slavery society for several years.
He published Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy; Book of the Sabbath; and Letters to Dr. Bacon and to Dr. Stowe.
He died Sept. 12, 1847, in Roxbury, Mass.
Phelps, Austin
clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 7, 1820, in Brookfield, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Andover, Mass., and professor of sacred rhetoric in the Theological seminary there in 1848-79. He was the author of The Still Hour; The New Birth; The Theory of Preaching; English Style in Public Discourse; The Solitude of Christ; Studies of the Old Testament; Men and Books; My Study, and Other Essays; My Portfolio; and My Note-Book. He died Oct. 13, 1890, in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Phelps, Charles Edward
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 1, 1833, in Guilford, Vt. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-ninth congress, and was, subsequently, commissioned a brigadier-general for gallant conduct at the battle of Spottsylvania. He was re-elected to the fortieth congress, and in 1864 was one of a commission to revise the militia laws of Maryland.
Phelps, Darwin
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in East Granby, Conn. In 1855 he was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature, and in 1868 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Phelps, Dryden William
clergyman, poet, was born in New Haven, Conn.
He has filled pastorates in the baptist churches of Wilmington, Vt.; and is the author of a number of poems.
Phelps, Edward John
lawyer, educator, public official, was born July 11, 1822, in Middlebury, Vt. He was second comptroller of the United States treasury from 1851 to 1853; was a member of the Vermont constitutional convention in 1870; and was elected president of the American Bar association in 1880. He became professor of law in Yale college in 1881, and in 1885 was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain.
Phelps, Elisha
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1779, in Simsbury, Conn. He was several times a member of the house of representatives and of the senate of his native state; and was speaker of the house of representatives in the legislature in 1821 and 1829. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1819 to 1821, and also from 1825 to 1829. He was comptroller of the state from 1830 to 1834, and in 1835 was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of Connecticut. He died April 18, 1847, in Simsbury, Conn.
Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth
(STU- ART), author, was born Aug. 13, 1815, in Andover, Mass. She was a writer whose Sunnyside, and A Peep at Number Five, stories descriptive of clerical life, were once widely popular. She wrote, also, Last Sheaf from Sunnyside, and a number of Sunday-school tales, the latter over the signature H. Trusta. She died Nov. 30, 1852, in Boston, Mass.
Phelps, George Dwight
philanthropist, was born in 1803 in Simsbury, Conn. He was the first president of the New York Young Men's society, which was founded in 1831, and was the precursor of the Young Men's Christian association. He died Aug. 31, 1872, in New York city.
Phelps, George May
inventor, was born March 19, 1820, in Watervliet, N. Y. His most valuable invention was the motor-printer, which is now in use on the lines of the Western Union Telegraph company. He died May 18, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Phelps, Guy Rowland
capitalist, was born in April, 1802, in Simsbury, Conn. In 1846 he founded the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company, and he was its president until his death. He was the author of that plan which permits the policy-holder to anticipate the presumed surplus by an increased insurance from the beginning. He died March 18, 1869, in Hartford, Conn.
Phelps, James
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1822, in Colebrook, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut state house of representatives in 1853-56, and of the state senate in 1858-59. He was elected a judge of the superior court of Connecticut in 1863 for the term of eight years, and was re-elected for a similar term in 1871. He was elected a judge of the supreme court of errors of the state in 1873, and resigned in 1875 upon his election to the fortyfourth congress. He was a member of the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses, and was re-elected to the forty-seventh congress as a democrat.
Phelps, John Smith
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, governor, born Dec. 28, 1814, in Simsbury, Conn. In 1840 he was chosen by the people of Greene county, Mo., to represent them in the legislature. Having been appointed brigadeinspector in 1841, he has since borne the title of major. In 1844 he was elected a representative to the twenty-ninth congress, serving in that position until the close of the thirty-sixth congress, and was a member of the select committee of thirty-three on the rebellious states. He was also re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress; served as colonel of volunteers in 1861, and in 1862 he was appointed military governor of Arkansas. In 1876 he was elected governor of Missouri. He died Nov. 20, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.
Phelps, John Wolcott
soldier, author, poet, was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Guilford, Vt. He was a writer of Brattleboro, Vt., who was an officer in the United States army in the Mexican war and became a brigadier-general of United States volunteers in the civil war. In 1880 he was the presidential nominee of the American party. He was the author of Sibylline Leaves; Good Behavior; History of Madagascar; and The Fables of Florian in English Verse. He died Feb. 2, 1885, in Guilford, Vt.
Phelps, Launcelot
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839.
Phelps, Noah Amherst
lawyer, state legislator, author, was born Oct. 16, 1788, in Simsbury, Conn. He was a member of both houses of the Connecticut legislature for several terms, and secretary of state of Connecticut in 1843-44. He published History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton, Conn., from 1642 to 1645; and History of the Copper Mines and Newgate Prison at Granby. He died Aug. 26, 1872, in Simsbury, Conn.
Phelps, Oliver
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1749 in Windsor, Conn. He opened the first land office in America at Canandaigua, and his system became the model for all subsequent surveys. In 1795 he was one of the purchasers of the western reserve, in Ohio, comprising three million three hundred thousand acres; and afterwards removed to Canandaigua. He represented that district in congress from 1803 to 1805, and was a judge of the circuit court. He died Feb. 21, 1809, in Canandaigua, N. Y.
Phelps, Samuel Shethar
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born May 13, 1793, in Litchfield, Conn. He entered the American army, and before the close of his military career was appointed paymaster. He was a member of the council of censors, and wrote the address issued by that body. In 1831 he was chosen a member of the legislative council of Vermont, and was soon afterward appointed judge of the supreme court of the state, in which position he remained until 1838. He was a senator in congress from 1839 to 1851, and in 1853 was appointed to the senate to fill a vacancy. He died March 25, 1855, in Middlebury, Vt.
Phelps, Seth L
naval officer. He served throughout the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank of captain. In 1865 he resigned his commission and entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, and became vicepresident of the company. He resigned in 1878, to accept the appointment of commissioner of the District of Columbia, and in 1883 was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru. He died at his post shortly after entering upon the discharge of his duties.
Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden
clergyman, author, poet, was born May 15, 1816, in Suffield, Conn. He is a baptist clergyman of New Haven, and subsequently of Hartford, and the author of Eloquence of Nature, and Other Poems; Sunlight and Heartlight, and Other Poems; The Poet's Song for Heart and Home; Bible Lands; and Sermons in the Four Quarters of the Globe.
Phelps, Thomas Stowell
naval officer, author, was born Nov. 2, 1822, in Buckfield, Maine. He was a rear-admiral in the United States navy who retired in 1885. He is the author of Reminiscences of Washington Territory.
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