PHELPS
PHELPS
settled first at Braintree and then in Newtown,
and was an original proprietor of Hartford, Conn.,
in 1G35. She was instructed by lier sister, Mrs.
Emma Hart WiUard (ii-v.), whoni she assisted at
Middlebury, Vt., and completed her education
in the Female academy, Pittsfield, Mass. She
taught a private school at Middletown, Conn., was
again with her sister at Middlebury and was prin-
cipal of the Sandy Hill, N.Y., Female academy,
1815-17. Slie was married, Oct. 15, 1817, to Simeon
Lincoln, Jr., and after his death she became
head teaclier in the department of natural science
in Mrs. Willard's seminary at Troy, N.Y., and
vice-principal of the seminar\' in 1827, managing
it while her sister was in Europe. She was mar-
ried secondly, in 1831, to Judge John Phelps of
Vermont, and retired from active educational
work until 1838, when slie became principal of
the West Chester, Pa., Female seminary. She
was subsequently principal of a private school at
Railway, N.J.. and conducted, with her husband,
the Patapsco institute, a diocesan female school
at Baltimore. Md., 1841-1849, where she remained
alone, 1849-56. She was the second woman to be
elected a member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and read before
that body papers on the religious and scientific
character and writings of Edward Hitchcock
(18GG), and the "Infidel Tendencies of Modern
Science " (1878). Slie was also a member of the
Maryland Academy of Science, to which society
she gave her herbarium containing about 600
specimens. She is the author of: Familiar Lec-
tures on Botany (1829); Dictionary of Chemistry
(1830); Botany for Beginners (1831); Geology
for Beginners (1832); Female Student or Fireside
Friend (1833); Cliemistry for Beginners (1834);
Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1835); Lectures
on Chemistry (1837); Natural Philosophy for
BeginJiers {1837 ); Ida Xor man (ISoO); Christian
Households (1860); Hours with My Pujiils {ISG9};
Autumn Fruits (1873), and Preserved in the Win-
ter o/Lj/c (1873). She also edited: Our Coun-
try, in its Relation to the Past, Present and Future
(1868), and the proceeds from its sale were de-
voted to the Christian and sanitary commis-
sions. She diod in Baltimore, Md., July 15, 1884.
PHELPS, Austin, clergyman, was born in
"West Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1820; son of
Eliakim and Sarah (Adams) Phelps; grandson of
Eliakim and Abigail (Combes) PJielps, and a
descendant of William Plielps, who came from
Tewksbury, England, to America in the ship
Mary and John in 1630, settled first at Hull and
then in Dorcliester, Mass., and Windsor. Conn.,
in 1635. He attended Hobart college, 183:3-34;
Amherst college in 1835; was graduated at the
University of Pennsylvania. A.B., 1837, A.M..
1840; was resident licentiate at the Andover
Tlieological seminary, 1838-42; was licensed to
preach in 1840, and was pastor of the Pine St.
Congregational church, Boston, Mass., 1842-48.
He was professor of homiletics and sacreil rhetoric
in Andover Theological seminary, 1S48-79, pro-
fessor emeritus, 1879-90, and president of the
seminary, 1869-79. He served as chaplain of both
houses of the Massachusetts legislature and
preached the "election sermon" in 1861. He
was married in September, 1842, to Elizabeth,
daughter of the Rev. Moses Stuart of Andover;
secondly in April, 1855, to Mary, her .sister, and
thirdly in June, 1858, to Mary A., daugliter of
Samuel Johnson of Boston, Mass. He received
the honorary degree of D.D. from Amlierst in
1856. He edited Hymns and Choirs with Prof.
Edwards A. Park and Rev. David Furber (1859);
Sabbath Hymn-Book with Prof. Park and Dr.
Lowell Mason (1859), and is the author of: The
Still Hour (1858), which had a large circulation
in America and abroad; The New Birth (1867);
77)6 Solitude of Christ (1868); Sabbath Hours
(1870); Studies of the. Old Testament (1878);
TJieory and Practice of Preaching: Lectures on
Homiletics (1882); My Portfolio (1882); English
Style in Public Discourse (1883): My Studies and
other Essays (1886); My Note-Book; Fragmentary
Studies in Tlieology and Subjects Adjacent Thereto
(1889); besides addresses and contributions to the
Congregationalist and other periodicals. See
" Memoir " by Mrs. E. S. P. Ward (1891). He
died at Bar Harbor, Maine, Oct. 13, 1890.
PHELPS, Charles Edward, jurist, was born in Guilford, Vt., May 1, 1833; son of John and Almira (Hart) Lincoln (q.v.) Phelps; grandson of Capt. Samuel Hart, a soldier in the Revolu- tion, and a colonial champion of religious libferty; great-grandson of Charles Phelps, the first lawyer who set- tled in Vermont, and a descendant of Wil- liam Phelps, who came from England in 1630, and of the Rev. Thomas Hooker (q.v.). He removed to Maryland in 1841; was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1855; studied law at Harvard; be- came a practising law- yer in Baltimore in 1855, and was adrtiitted to prac- tice in the U.S. supreme court in 1859. He was elected on the Reform ticket a member of the city council of Baltimore in 1860; was one of the organizers and major of the Maryland Guard,
