Brief Life History of William H
When William H Phelps was born on 5 August 1828, in Willsboro, Willsboro, Essex, New York, United States, his father, Samuel Truesdale Phelps, was 24 and his mother, Dorcas Carrie Frisbie, was 21. He married Matilda Knecht on 7 September 1854, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Au Sable, Clinton, New York, United States in 1850 and Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 18 December 1889, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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- William H Phelps, "United States Census, 1870"
- William H. Phelps, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"
- Wm H. Phelps, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1839
Established in 1839
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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