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.