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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, 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, 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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Phelps, Timothy G

congressman, was born in New York. He removed to California and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-seventh congress.

Phelps, William Lyon

educator, author, was born in 1865 in Connecticut.

He is an instructor at Yale university, and the author of The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement.

Phelps, William W

journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 1, 1826, in Oakland county, Mich.

In 1852 and 1853 he held the office of commissioner for his native county, performing the duties of judge at chambers. In 1854 he was appointed register of the United States land office at Red Wing, in Minnesota. In 1857 he was elected a representative from Minnesota to the thirty-fifth congress. In 1860 he assumed the editorship of the Red Wing Sentinel.

Phelps, William Walter

lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1839, in New York city. He was elected from New York a representative to the forty-third congress, and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1880. He was appointed United States minister to Austria in 1881, and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

Phelps, William Wines

journalist, state legislator, poet, was born Feb. 17, 1792, in Hanover, N. J. He removed to Missouri, and established the first morning paper at Independence, Mo., in 1832. He was in the Utah legislature in 1850-57, speaker of the house for several terms, and a justice of the peace. He wrote some of the most popular hymns in the Mormon hymn-book. He died March 7, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Phifer, Charles Lincoln

journalist, poet, was born July 16, 1860, in Fayette county, Ill. He is a successful journalist of California, Mo., and the author of several pamphlets of verse; and a volume of poems entitled Annals of the Earth.

PHILBRICK, EDWARD SOUTHWICK, sanitarian, author, was born in 1827 in Massachusetts. He was a sanitarian who published American Sanitary Engineering.