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SAMUEL
WARD PHELPS, a prominent and wealthy horticulturist of Willoughby
township, Lake county, Ohio, is a native of Painesville, this county,
born November 29, 1825. Hon. Samuel Ward Phelps, his father, and one of the pioneers of the Western Reserve, was a native of Connecticut. He died in Ohio, in the prime of life, July 4,1826, aged forty-five years. A graduate of Yale College, a lawyer by profession, and a man of marked business ability, he was in every way fitted to become a leader in the pioneer district where he settled, and few men in northern Ohio were better known or more highly respected than he. He came to the frontier as agent for a Connecticut land company, which owned a large tract of land along the lake shore. His arrival in Ohio dates in 1801. That was before there had been any settlement in this part of the country. In 1803, he married Lydia Paine, daughter of General Edward Paine. During the war of 1812, Mr. Phelps served as aid to General Harrison. He was a member of the Legislature when it met at Circleville; was also a member of the Constitutional Convention and helped to frame the Constitution of the State of Ohio. Judge Spaulding, now of Cleveland, Ohio, was at one time a student in Mr. Phelps' law office at Painesville. Mrs. Phelps died in 1857, leaving five daughters and one son, the latter the subject of our sketch, being one of the three children who are still living. Young Phelps attended the public schools at Painesville until he was twelve years old, after which he spent five years at Kenyon College. After leaving college, he became connected with the Geauga Iron Company, at Painesville, in which he was a stockholder and with which he was associated seven years. The following seven years he was agent for the Lake Shore Railroad at Painesville. Then he located at Oil City, Pennsylvania, and spent two years in buying oil and shipping to Pittsburgh. Next we find him at Brazil, Indiana, where he was interested in coal-mining seven years, and following that he was for thirteen years in the Fountain county mines of Indiana. He owned and developed a number of mines. In 1883, Mr. Phelps came to Willoughby and purchased a farm on the Cleveland and Painesville road—the farm on which his wife was born, and on which since 1883 they have made their home. Here he has 238 acres, and he also has under his management a hundred acres near by. 100 acres of this land he has devoted to fruit culture, having twenty-live acres in peaches, twenty-seven in a vineyard and a pear orchard comprising 1,600 trees. Mr. Phelps also owns 280 acres of land in Clay county, Indiana. He was married in 1849, to Miss Mary O. Hall, daughter of Levi and Nancy (Cord) Hall. Her father came to Ohio in 1813, and her mother's people were also among the pioneers of Lake county. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps have three children: Samuel H., Mary E., and William C. Mr. Phelps is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In politics he was first a Whig and is now a Republican. Source: Biographical history of northeastern Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1893 - pages 1015 |
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