Brief Life History of Alvin Elmer
When Alvin Elmer Phelps was born on 20 August 1855, in Richmond Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, his father, Francis D. Phelps, was 33 and his mother, Nancy Jane Woodworth, was 28. He married Delia E Stanclift about 1880. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Madison, Lake, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 1925. He died on 2 May 1925, at the age of 69, and was buried in Geneva, Rush Creek Township, Fairfield, Ohio, United States.
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- Alvin Phelps, "United States Census, 1900"
- Alvin E Phelps, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
- A.E. Phelps in entry for John F. Phelps, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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