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    • Nathaniel Phelps b. abt 1627
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    • Radio Station Operations in Kodiak Part B
    • Radio Station Operations in Kodiak Part C
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  • 1600-1699
    • John Phelps, Court Clerk at the Trial of King Charles I
    • Anson Green Phelps, Merchant and Philanthropist
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    • Richard Phelps, Bell-founder for English Churches
    • Dr. Francis Phelps, Representative and Senator
    • Judge John Phelps, Publisher, Judge, Merchant, and Entrepreneur
    • Noah Phelps, A Spy at Ticonderoga, A Patriot of 1776
    • Oliver Phelps, Land Speculator, Judge, Congressman
    • William Wines Phelps, Judge, Mormon Publisher and Writer
    • Samuel Shethar Phelps, Jurist, Congressman, and Senator
  • 1800-1849 A-M
    • Alfred Aaron Phelps, Wild West Show Rider
    • Austin Phelps, Congregational Minister, Educator
    • Charles Edward Phelps, Congressman, Judge, Author
    • Delos Porter Phelps, Lawyer, U.S. Assistant Treasurer
    • Edward John Phelps, American Lawyer, Diplomat
    • George M. Phelps, Master Telegraph Instrument Maker, Inventor
    • Dr. Guy Rowland Phelps, Founder, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
    • Judge James Phelps, Judge, Congressman
    • Judge John Jay Phelps, Publisher, Judge, Merchant, Entrepreneur
    • John Smith Phelps, Lawyer, Legislator
    • John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General, United States Volunteers
    • Mary Phelps Rich
  • 1800-1849 N-Z
    • Mary Anne Phelps Rich, Mormon Pioneer
    • Rev. Philip Phelps, Founder, First President, Western Theological Seminary
    • Stephen Sumner Phelps, Illinois Pioneer
    • Thomas Stowell Phelps, Civil War Naval Officer
    • William Walter Phelps, Congressman, Ambassador, Judge
  • 1850-1899
    • Mary Phelps Jacob, Inventor, Publisher
    • William Lyon Phelps, Educator, Literary Critic, Author
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American Heraldry: The Irish Phelps Family Crest

THE CROSS IS THE LIGHT OF FAITH 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)