Brief Life History of Paul Thomas
When Paul Thomas Phelps was born on 2 November 1902, in Ohio, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Phelps, was 40 and his mother, Lutitia Jane Jennie Franklin, was 40. He lived in McHenry, Ohio, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 September 1981, in Daviess, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Render Cemetery, McHenry, Ohio, Kentucky, United States.
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- Paul Phelps in household of Thomas J Phelps, "United States Census, 1910"
- Paul Phelps, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Paul Phelps, "Find A Grave Index"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1904 · The Black Patch War
From 1904-1909, the Black Patch War took place. This was a war between about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. The war was mostly over the Dark Fired Tobacco that was produced in the area during this time.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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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