Phelps, Matt.

PHELPS, PAIGE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/23/2013 at 08:03:02

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

PHELPS, MATT.—Grinnell Twp—pg 919. Firm of Phelps & Moer, attorneys at law. Born in Lake county, Illinois, near Waukegan, on the 23d day of July, 1843, he removed with his parents soon after to Vermont, and afterward to Wisconsin. Came to this county July 19, 1854. He was educated and a graduate of the Iowa College, and also a graduate of the Iowa Law School of Des Moines, now of Iowa City; he also attended the Ann Arbor Law School, in Michigan. He was admitted to practice in 1867, and commenced the practice of his profession in Grinnell, where he has succeeded by his own unaided efforts in building up a large and lucrative business, and is the attorney for the C., R.I. & P. Railroad. Mr. Phelps was married to Miss Marielma Paige, of Iowa Falls, in September, 1870. She died August 12, 1879, leaving one little daughter, Marielma F. (aged two and a half years).