Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 14

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988

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count of his health. While in that state he organ- ized a church in Macon, and for a time had charge of Chatham Academy, Savannah. He was also rector of Christ Church, Clappville, for several years. Returning to Maine he supplied Christ Church, Gardiner, and then accepted the rector- ship of Christ Church, Leicester, Massachusetts. In 1833 he went to New York City, where as rec- tor of the Church of the Epiphany, he labored for thirty-three years with great success. "This was strictly a missionary enterprise, springing from an effort of benevolence to supply the wants of a populous but comparatively poor neighbor- hood. The sittings were all free, and its religious privileges have been blessed to multitudes of that shifting population." Long as it was since Rev. Lot Jones renounced the tenets of Quakerism, he retained much of the manner and tone which mark the members of that placid community. Among the rectors of the Episcopal Churches in New York City few were older than he and none more highly respected. Besides several dis- courses in pamphlet form, he published a small volume called "The Memoir of Mrs. Sarah L. Taylor," (Bowdoin College History). Another writer says of him: "He was held in respect everywhere as the faithful and beloved pastor. In literary and social circles of the metropolis he was no less esteemed as an accomplished scholar and one of the most genial of men. He died quite suddenly in consequence of an accidental fall while attending a church convention in Phila- delphia."

Mrs. Lucy Ann Jones, wife of Rev. Lot Jones, was the daughter of Dr. Artemus Bullard, of Sutton, Massachusetts, and his wife, Lucy, daughter of Deacon Jesse and Ann Mason White, of Northbridge. Her father was a prominent physician and a fellow of the council of the Mass- achusetts Medical Society. He was descended from Robert Bullard, of Watertown, whose son, Benjamin Bullard, was a large landowner in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Benjamin Bullard (3) eldest son of Benjamin (2), married Judith, daughter of Ebenezer Hill, of Sherborn, and had six sens and five daughters. Asa, the eldest son, was the father of Dr. Artemus Bullard. Lucy

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White, the wife of Dr. Artemus Bullard and the mother of Mrs. Lot Jones, descended also from "Sampson Mason, the Baptist and Dragoon in Oliver Cromwell's Army," of whom a sketch ap- peared in the New England Hist .- Gen. Register for July, 1864. Mrs. Bullard was descended from him in the sixth generation. Among Mrs. Lot Jones' brothers were Rev. Artemus Bullard, D. D., of Amherst College, 1826; Rev. Asa Bul- lard, M. A., of the same college, 1828; Ebenezer Waters Bullard, M. A., of Miami University, 1834; Talbot Bullard, M. D., and Jesse Mason Bullard, M. D .: and among her sisters was Eu- nice White Bullard, who has been so well known for many years as Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher. Rev. Lot and Lucy Ann (Bullard) Jones had five children : William Henry, died in infancy ; Maria Louisa, married George E. Moore, of New York, both deceased; Emily, died in infancy ; Lucy Ann, died in infancy ; and Henry Law- rence.

Rev. Henry Lawrence Jones, M. A., S. T. D., born New York, May 30, 1839, married, October 6, 1869, Sarah Eastman Coffin, daughter of Sam- uel Coffin, of Concord, New Hampshire, and his wife, Harriet Fox Ayers. Dr. Jones graduated Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, New York, 1858, Master of Arts, 1861 ; from his alma mater he also received the honorary degree of S. T. D., 1892. After his graduation he entered the Theological Seminary of Virginia to study di- vinity, and graduated 1861. He was ordained to the diaconate May 24, 1861, and to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, D. D., LL. D., in I862. After serving his diaconate under his father in New York City, he accepted a call to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he organized Christ Church parish, October, 1863, and re- mained rector of the church for eleven years, re- signing 1874 to accept a call to St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre, where he has served as rector for thirty-one years. During that period he has held the highest positions in the eccles- iastical affairs of the diocese of Central Pennsyl- vania, i. e., examining chaplain 1876-80; presi- dent of the North-Western Convocation (now Archdeaconry of Scranton) and member of the

Board of Missions 1876-87, when he refused to be re-elected ; deputy to the General Convention of the Church, 1886-1905 ; member of the standing committee continuously since 1876. He was also for years member of the executive committee of the American Church Missionary Society, of which Judge I. N. Conyngham was president. He is president of the board of trustees of the Oster- hout Free Library, and vice-president of the Wy- oming Historical-Geological Society. He has for the past thirty years and more been past mas- ter, past patriarch, and past commander of the Masonic lodge, chapter and commandery of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution in right of his ancestor, Asa Bullard, who served in the Revolutionary army. Dr. Jones' church work is, perhaps, the most extensive in the dio- cese of Pennsylvania, the mother parish having charge of seven mission chapels, and the rector a staff of five assistant pastors.

Mrs. Henry L. Jones descends from Tristram Coffin, of Butlers, parish of Brixton, county De- von, England, who died 1602, and whose grand- son, son of Nicholas Coffin, of Butlers, 1613, was Peter Coffin, of the same place, who died 1628. Peter married Joanna Thember, and died in Eng- land, 1628. His widow, with her son Tristram and daughters Mary and Eunice, came to Salis- bury, Massachusetts, 1642. She was a woman of unusual force of character. Her son Tristram, born 1609, died 1681, was the ancestor of the Coffin family of Newbury, Massachusetts. Tris- tram Coffin, 1609-81, had Tristram, Jr., who mar- ried Judith Greenleaf, 1602-1705, and had Nath- . aniel, who married Sarah, daughter of Captain Samuel Brocklebank, and had John, who married Judith Greenleaf, 1692-1772, and had Willian, who married Sarah Hazeltine, whose son Enoch married Lois Cavis and had Samuel, the father of Mrs. Jones. He married Harriet Fox Ayers. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Pennsylvania So- ciety Colonial Dames of America through hier an- cestors, Judge Nicholas Coffin, Lieutenant Ed- ward Greenleaf, Captain Stephen Greenleaf, and Captain Samuel Brocklebank.

Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Henry L. Jones had six

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children: I Harriet Louise, now the head of Glencoe Female Seminary, Glencoe, Maryland. 2. Lawrence Bullard, Yale College, A. B., 1894; was admitted to the Luzerne county bar, 1896. He married, June 15, 1899, Martha Phelps, born October 16, 1873, daughter of George Slocum and Ellen Woodward (Nelson) Bennett. (See Bennett Family). 3. Helen Crocker, died an infant. 4. Carleton Coffin, Yale College, A. B., 1898, and now (1905) bookkeeper in the Miners' Saving Bank of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and adjutant of the Ninth Regular National Guard of Pennsylvania. 5. Gertrude Fox, a graduate of Johns Hopkins Hospital School for Nurses in Baltimore, Maryland. 6. Paul, graduated A. B., Yale College, 1902, now a student of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts. H. E. H.

PHELPS FAMILY. The founder of this branch of the family in America was William Phelps, a son of William Phelps, baptized Au- gust 4, 1560, at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, and his wife Dorothy, and grandson of James Phelps, born same place 1520, and his wife Joan. William Phelps was baptized at Tewkes- bury, August 15, 1599. He and his brother, Richard Phelps, baptized December 26, 1619, and George Phelps, all members of a church organ- ized in Plymouth, England, early in 1629, with Rev. John Warham and Rev. Samuel Maverick, both University bred men and ministers of the Church of England, as their pastors, with a goodly number of emigrants, one hundred and forty in all, from Devonshire, Dorsetshire and So.mersetshire, England, set sail for New Eng- land in the ship "Mary and John," reaching the Massachusetts coast March 30, 1630, and landed at what is now Dorchester Manse. William Phelps was one of seven only in this first organ- ized Church of New England who was entitled to be addressed as "Mister," a title given only to men of scholarship or high position. He brought with him his wife Elizabeth and five children ; he was made a freeman, Dorchester, November 9, 1630 : members of the church only could be ad-

mitted as freemen, and only freemen could exer- cise the right to vote.

Mr. Phelps was one of the first jury empan- elled in New England, 1630. He was appointed constable 1631, and in 1634, with Ensign Giles Gibbs, was appointed by the general court of Massachusetts, part of a committee to arrange the bounds between Boston and Dorchester. In 1636 he removed to Windsor, Connecticut, with a church under Rev. John Warham, and was ap- pointed by the general court of Massachusetts, March 3, 1636, one of the governing commission- ers to govern the people of Connecticut, which honorable position he held until Connecticut be- came an independent colony. He was assistant 1636 to 1642, 1658 to 1662 ; member of the gov- ernor's council in 1637, covering a period of forty sessions. He was also deputy to the general court of Connecticut, 1645 to 1655. and 1657, in all fifty-six sessions. His wife Elizabeth, died prior to 1636. He married (second) at Windsor, Mary Dover, born in England, who is said to have been a fellow passenger with him on the "Mary and John." A member of the original Church of Dorchester and Windsor. After liv- ing forty-two years in New England. of which thirty-six were passed in Windsor, he died there July 14, 1672 : his widow, Mary died November 27, 1675. He was an excellent, pious and up- right man in his public and private life, "a pillar in church and state." In 1641 he and Mr. John Welles, of Hartford, were appointed a com- mittee on lying. In the old records Mr. Phelps was distinguished from his son William as "Ould Mr. Phelps." Children, first marriage :

I. William, born 1620; died s. p. February 7, 16SI ; married (first) June 4, 1645, Isabel Wil- son : married (second) December 20, 1676, Sarah Pinney.

2. Sarah, born 1623 ; married June 9, 1658, William Wade ; died s. d. p. 1659.

3. Samuel, born 1625: married November 10, 1650, Sarah Griswold; had issue.

4. Nathaniel, born 1627 ; married September 17, 1650, Eizabeth Copley : had issue.

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5. Joseph, born 1629.

Children of William Phelps, second marriage :

6. Timothy, born August, 1639, Windsor ; married March 19, 1661, Mary Griswold; had issue.

7. Mary, born Windsor, March, 1644; mar- ried Thomas Barber : had issue.

Joseph Phelps, fifth child of William and Elizabeth, married (first) September 20, 1660, Hannah Newton, daughter of Roger Newton. She died in Simsbury, 1674. He married (sec- ond) January 9, 1676, Mary Salmon, widow of Thomas Salmon, who died January 16, 1682. Josephi was made a freeman 1664. In 1668 he sold his property, and removed to Simsbury. where he died, 1684. His children (first mar- riage) were: Joseph, born August 2, 1667; Hannah, born February 2, 1668, died young ; Timothy, born 1671 ; had issue.

Lieutenant Joseph Phelps, eldest son of Jos- eph and Hannah Phelps, married (first) Mary Collier, who died in 1697; (second), November 9. 1699, Sarah Case, daughter of John and Sarah (Spencer) Case, died May 2, 1704, and (third) Mary Case, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Case, who died September 10, 1757. Lieutenant Phelps was a deputy to the general court of Con- necticut from Simsbury, 1709 to 1727, service of thirty-three sessions. He was justice, 1726 to 1733 ; ensign, May 1716; commissioned lieuten- ant, 1730: captain. 1732. He died January 20, 1750. His children, first wife :

Joseph, born October 9, 1689.

Hannah, born October 25. 1693; married February 23, 1710, Samuel Humphrey; had issue.

Mary, born October 17, 1696 : died January 9, 1713.

Children by second wife :

Sarah, born August II, 1700; died January

14, 1714.

Damaris, born March 5, 1703 ; married April 7, 1720, John Mills.

Children by third wife :

David, born 1710.

Lieutenant David Phelps, of Simsbury, mar- ried. April 25. 1731, Abigail Pettebone, born in

Simsbury, April 22, 1706, died October 16, 1787, daughter of John Pettebone, Jr., and his wife Mary Bissell, son of John Pettebone and Sarah Egglestone, of Begat Egglestone, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630. Mary Bissell was daugh- ter of Samuel Bissell, of John, 1591-1677, and Abigail Holcombe, of Thomas, 1630. Lieuten- and David Phelps was deputy from Simsbury to the general court of Connecticut. October, 1752, to May, 1756, eleven sessions ; was commissioned lieutenant, May, 1756. He died in Simsbury, April 9. 1760, aged fifty years. Children :

David, born May 7, 1732; died July 19, I. 1732.

2. David, born March 26, 1733.

3. Abigail, born November 5, 1735 ; married

(first) Edward Griswold, (second) Amasa Case.

4. Elisha, born October 17, 1737 : died July 14, 1776; married. August 10, 1760, Rosetta Owen ; appointed captain and a commissary Con- necticut troops, 1774-75 ; had issue.

5. General Noah Phelps, born January 22, 1740 : died March 4, 1805 : married June 10, 1761 Lydia Griswold. Served as captain Revolution- ary war and commissary, later major-general of militia : judge of probate twenty-two years ; dep- uty twenty sessions; was father of Governor, Elisha Phelps and others.

6. Rachel Phelps, born December II, 1741 ; married David Humphrey.

7. Ruth, born September 15. 1743 ; married Jonah Case.

8. Sarah, born October 15. 1745; married March, 1765. Elijah Hayden, of William, 1630.

9. Susanah, born January 4, 1748; married William Nash.

IO. Lois, born March 4, 1750 : married No- vember 15. 1770. Samuel Hayden, of William, I630.

Captain David Phelps, son of Lieutenant David Phelps and Abigail Pettibone, married (first) April 7, 1753, Abigail Griswold, born in Windsor, May 16, 1732, died there May 16, 1795, daughter of Edward Griswold and Abigail Gaylord, son of Daniel Griswold and Mindwell Bissell : son of George Griswold and Mary Hol- combe, son of Edward Griswold, deputy to the

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general court 1656, 1658-60, 1668-69. Mindwell Griswold was daughter of Nathaniel Bissell and Mindwell Moore, daughter of Deacon John Moore, deputy from Windsor, 1643-61 to 1667; John Bissell, father of Nathaniel, was deputy 1648 to 1659; member of the first troop of horse, Windsor, 1657-58. Captain Phelps married (second) Harriet Humphreys, who died s. p. Captain Phelps was first lieutenant Josiah Gil- lett's Company, Second Battalion, Colonel Fisher Gay, Connecticut Militia, June to December, 1776, at Long Island ; lieutenant Connecticut mil- itia in "Danbury Alarm," April 25, to 28, 1777 ; captain in Colonel Noah Phelps' regiment Con- necticut militia in the "New Haven Alarm," July 5, 1779; captured and confined on prison ship "Jersey." Children :

I. Abigail, born November 16, 1754; mar- ried Jared Merrill.

2. Ozias, born May 1, 1756; married Sallie Judson.

3. David, born November 13, 1759; mar- ried Asennath Humphrey.

4. Elizabeth, born November 13, 1759, twin to David ; married Samuel Terry.

5. Rhoda, born September 22, 1765; mar- ried Abel Filley ; had issue.

6. Roswell, born October 31, 1767 ; married Dorcas Pettebone ; d. s. p.

7. Alexander, born February 26, 1769.

8. Susannah, born December 27, 1773 ; mar- ried Frederick Phelps.

9. Oliver Cromwell, born December 25, 1774, married Susannah Ensign.

Alexander Phelps, seventh child of Captain David and Abigail Griswold Phelps, married De- cember 12, 1793, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Jonathan Eno, and his wife, Mary Hart. She was born August 9, 1773; died in 1865. Mr. Phelps died in Simsbury, February 25, 1852. Capt. Jonathan Eno was a son of David and Mary Gillett Eno, son of James and Abigail (Bissell) Eno, son of James Eno, of Windsor, and wife Hannah Bidwell, daughter of Richard, 1630. Mary Hart, who married Captain Eno, January 7, 1764, was daughter of Elijah Hart, ensign,

October, 1752, lieutenant, May, 1756, and his wife Abigail Goodrich ; son of Thomas Hart and wife Mary Thompson, son of Captain Thomas Hart and wife Ruth Hawkins. Capt. Thomas Hart was deputy from Farmington, 1690 to. 1706, thirty-two sessions; speaker of the general court, 1700-1704-5-6; justice, 1717,

1718; ensign, and lieutenant, and May, 1695, captain Connecticut militia, counselor, June 19, 1697. He was the son of Stephen Hart, born in England, 1605, deputy 1647-60, thirty- three sessions. Anthony Hawkins, father of Ruth Hawkins Hart, was deputy 1657 to 1663, thirteen sessions; assistant, 1664, 1668-74. Abi- gail Goodrich, wife of Lieutenant Elijah Hart, was granddaughter of Lieutenant-Colonel David Goodrich, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, lieuten- ant 1704; quartermaster, 1710; captain 1715; deputy, 1716; lieutenant-colonel. Abigail Good- rich descends from John Steele, who was deputy general court of Massachusetts, 1634-35 ; deputy to general court Connecticut, thirty-four sessions, from 1640-1659, and with "old Mr. William Phelps," one of the commissioners appointed by Massachusetts to govern the colony of Connecti- cut, March 3, 1636. Children :

I. Alexander Cotton Phelps, M. D., born 1794; married January 20, 1830, Harriet Eliza Wood, born March 24, 1806; moved to Pennsylvania, 1827, settled in Dundaff, thence to Waverly, New York, where he practiced medi- cine. Children: Harriet Elizabeth, Norman Alexander, Mary Hodge, Sarah Amelia.

2. Horace Griswold Phelps, born February 2, 1797 ; died Corning, New York, 1871 ; married July 19, 1819, Hannah Cartright; engaged in glass manufacture with his brother John J., Dun- daff, Pennsylvania. Children: John Cartright, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, married June 6, 1853, Sara C. Stevens ; Mary Phelps, born September 22, 1824, married, October 12, 1846, Claudius 'B. Pratt, Scranton, Pennsylvania ; Elisha, born April 12, 1827 ; Draper Legrand, born January 9, 1829, married August 14, 1855, Mary Hendrick, Titus- ville, Pennsylvania ; Martha, born April 3, 1834, married, December 6, 1859, Alonzo D. Terwil-

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liger ; Horace B., born May 'II, 1843, died 1881.

3. Jaman Hart Phelps, born August 7, 1799, (See below).

4. Edward Phelps, born February 25, 1802 ; married November 25, 1822, Lamittia Hubbard ; had Emilie L. and Sarah Amelia.

5. Elizabeth Phelps, born January 30, 1804; died Wilkes-Barre, January 28, 1893.

6. Norman Phelps, born November 10, 1806; married February 21, 1839, Sarah Wright, located at Dundaff. thence to Waverly, New York ; farmer ; children, Sarah Celestine.

7. Mary Ann Phelps, born December 20, 1808; married January 12, 1837, Simon Shurt- leff : died July 9. 1891.

8. John J. Phelps, born October 25, 1810.

9. Sherman David Phelps, born July 20, 1814; married (first) Susan Electra Porter ; (second), 1853. Ann Elizabeth Sweet : went with his brothers to Pennsylvania, 1829; 1846 to New York City, later to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, where he was merchant and railroad contractor : settled in Binghamton, New York. 1854, where he was unusually successful : died November 13, 1878. Children : Robert, Arthur, both dead.

Jaman Hart Phelps, son of Alexander and Elizabeth Eno Phelps, married January 1, 1823, Abigail Hoskins, born Simsbury, February 25, 1798 ; died 1879, daughter of Asa and Abigail Case Hoskins, of Daniel, John Anthony, John, who came in the "Mary Ann," 1630. Deputy general court Connecticut. 1637. Mr. Phelps moved to Dundaff with his brothers, engaged in the tannery business, after forty years moved to Scranton, engaged in the real estate business.after which he made his home with his son John,where he died August 4, 1885. Children :

John Case Phelps, born Granby. Connecticut, April 20, 1825, died Wilkes-Barre, July 14, 1892 ; married, Wilkes-Barre. September 20, 1854, Martha Wheeler Bennett. daughter of Ziba Ben- nett and his wife Hannah Slocum. (See Ben- nett family). Mr. Phelps moved to Dundaff, Pennsylvania, with his father in 1842, when sev- enteen years of age; he located in New York City, first as clerk, afterwards as proprietor ; was in business there until 1862, when he removed to

Wilkes-Barre, engaged in the banking business under the firm name of Bennett, Phelps & Com- pany, and the extensive purchase of anthracite coal land. Mr. Phelps was recognized as a man of unusual business capacity and personal integ- rity ; the latter years of his life were devoted to the care of his personal business and estate. For thirty years a resident of the city of Wilkes- Barre, he was at one time vice-president of the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad ; director of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad ; president and treasurer of the Wilkes-Barre Gas Company; `vice-president of the Sheldon Axle Company ; secretary for the Home for Friendless Children : director of the Wyoming National Bank, and of the Annora Coal Company : a mem- ber of the Board of Trade of Wilkes-Barre, and chairman of the committee on manufactures. He was prominently identified with industrial devel- opments of the city of his adoption, and a general supporter of every measure which had for its ob- business community was always for the best things : he was a man of striking personal ap- pearance, tall, handsome and of fine address. Children :

I. Anna Bennett Phelps ; married, March 31, 1903, Eustace Hubert Burrows, of London, son of Major General Arthur Burrows, Royal Army. 2. William George Phelps, born August 17, 1857 ; married November 17, 1880, Caroline Ives Shoemaker, born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, daughter of Hon. Lazarus Denison and Esther (Wadhams) Shoemaker, member U. S. congress. (See Shoemaker Family). Mr. Phelps is en- gaged in business in Binghamton, New York; is president First National Bank ; vice-president Se- curity Mutual Life Insurance Company, and di- rector in many corporations. Children : John Case Phelps, born June 29, 1883; Denison Shoemaker, born March 10, 1885; William George, born June 5, 1890; Esther Shoemaker, born August 20, 1892.

3. Francis Alexander Phelps, born May 4, 1859: married October 24. 1889, Margaretta Darling Brown, daughter of William Appleton and Elizabeth (Darling) Brown. ( See Darling Family.) Children: William Brown Phelps,

Ziba Bennett

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born September 20, 1890; Alice Darling Phelps, born March 7, 1893; Francis Slocum Phelps, born August 12, 1896. Mr. Phelps is head of the firm of Phelps, Straw & Company, now Phelps, Lewis & Bennett Company, and is largely inter- ested in real estate and director in many other corporations.

4. Grace Lee Phelps, married November 8, 1887, Harry Barstow Platt, son of Hon. Thomas C. Platt, born July 15, 1883, United States senator from New York, and his wife, Ellen Lucy Bars- tow, born February 25, 1835. Children: Sher- man Phelps Platt, born June 2, 1890; Charlotte Platt, born December 6, 1896; Thomas Collier Platt, born May 3, 1898. Mr. Platt is vice-pres- ident of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland.

5. Ziba Bennett Phelps, born December 7, 1870; married April 8, 1896, Elizabeth Drown, daughter of William Appleton and Elizabeth (Darling) Drown, of Weldon, Pennsylvania. (See Darling Family). Children : Elizabeth Drown Phelps, born October 26, 1897; Emily Bennett Phelps, born September 21, 1903.

John Jay Phelps, eighth child of Alexander and Elizabeth (Eno) Phelps, born October 25, 1810, married June 29, 1835, Dundaff, Pennsyl- vania, Rachel D. Badgeley Phinney, daughter of Colonel Gould and Rachel (Price) Phinney, of Elizabeth City, New Jersey, and Dundaff, Penn- sylvania, born in Elizabeth City, December 12, 1812. (See Phinney Family). In 1823 he owned and edited with George D. Prentiss, the "New England Weekly Review," at Hartford, Connecticut. Moved to Dundaff, Pennsylvania, 1827, and engaged in the manufacture of glass. Later, with his cousin, Amos R. Eno, engaged in merchandise in New York City. About 1850 he had operated in real estate with great boldness and success, building a fine block on the site of the old Grace Church, and another on that of the Park Theatre. He was a director of the Erie Railroad for a number of years; was identified with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail- road and one of its presidents and a member of the board. He is also connected with the Camden

& Amboy Railroad and several of the important banks in New York City, as well as other public and private trusts. Children :

Ellen Ada Phelps, born March 28, 1828 ; married June 20, 1860, Rev. David Stewart Dodge, of New York City. They have :

I. Ellen Ada Phelps Dodge, born New York, February 28, 1862; died November 29, 1883. 2. Walter Phelps Dodge, born Beyrout, Syria, June 13, 1869. 3. Francis Phelps Dodge, born New Jersey, September 20, 1871. 4. Guy Phelps Dodge, born New York City, February 21, 1874. 5. Clarence Phelps Dodge, born Honolulu, July 26, 1877.

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 14

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin Publication date: 1906 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 988

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988