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Notable Phelps Anson Green Phelps, Merchant and philanthropist Austin Phelps, Congregational clergyman, theologian and author Charles Edward Phelps, Congressman, Judge, Author Delos Porter Phelps, Lawyer and U.S. Assistant Treasurer Edward John Phelps, Lawyer, educator Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Dr. Francis Phelps, Representative and Senator George M. Phelps, Master telegraph instrument maker and inventor Dr. Guy Rowland Phelps, Founder, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance John Phelps, Clerk of the Court at the trial of King Charles I Judge James Phelps, Judge and Congressman Judge John Jay Phelps Judge, merchant, and entrepreneur. Judge John Phelps, Constitutional Convention Signatory from Connecticut John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General, United States Volunteers Mary Ann Phelps Rich, Latter-day Saints Pioneer Mary Phelps Jacob, Inventor of the Brassiere Noah Phelps, A Patriot of 1776 and Revolutionary War Spy Oliver Phelps Merchant, Revolutionary War veteran, Representative, Senator land promoter Rev. Philip Phelps First President, Western Theological Seminary Richard Phelps, Bell-founder for Churches Throughout England John Smith Phelps Lawyer, Repesentative, Governor Samuel Shethar Phelps, Jurist, Congressman, and Senator Stephen Sumner Phelps, Illinois Pioneer and Origin of the Hawk Eye State Name Thomas Stowell Phelps, Rear Admiral and Civil War Veteran William Walter Phelps, Congressman, Ambassador, and Judge William Wines Phelps, Judge, Latter-day Saint, Publisher and Writer William Lyon Phelps, American educator, author and critic
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Oliver Seymour Phelps, Genealogist and Author

Mr. Phelps, when he was about 10 years old, removed with his father to St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, where he settled, and resided about 43. years. In 1869 he removed with his family to Portland, Oregon. Judge Phelps held offices of honor had trust, both in St. Catharines and Portland, Ore., where he was a judge for several years. He was much interested in this family history, and corresponded for many years with members of the Phelps family in this country and England.(1)

Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps, author with his son-in-law Andrew T. Servin of "The Phelps Family in America."

Oliver Seymour Phelps, who was well known in Portland in the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, died at his home at Viola, Clackamas, County, yesterday morning [July 31, 1902], at the age of 86 years. The body was brought to this city for burial, and the funeral will take place from Holman’s chapel. Mr. Phelps was a native of Canada, but for many years before he came West he had been a resident of Ohio, and once he controlled a large part of the grain shipments over Lake Erie.

When he arrived in Portland he engaged in the grocery business, and he served two terms as a Justice of the peace. He was twice married, and his first wife was for many years a teacher in the public schools. She died in 1888, and a few years afterward he was married to a Mrs. Kitterman, and they made their home at Viola. His widow and a son by the former marriage survive him. The son, Frank Phelps, is now a resident of San Francisco.”(2)

^ 1Excerpted from The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors, (Save $201 by ordering through us.) Two volumes. By Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin. (Eagle Publishing Company of Pittsfield, Mass., 1899) Vol. II, p 989.

^ 2 Oregon City Enterprise (weekly), August 1, 1902