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.