R. G. PHELPS
R. G. Phelps, one of the prominent lawyers of Atlantic, is a native of Warren county, Illinois, born January 26, 1846. His early life was spent upon a farm. He was an apt scholar and received a good education, graduating from Monmouth College in the class of 1867, of which he was valedictorian. He studied law with Stewart and Phelps, at Monmouth, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court at Ottawa, during the spring term of 1868. He came to Cass county July 10, 1868, first locating at Lewis, and moved to Atlantic during the winter of 1869-'70, where he engaged in the practice of his profession in the firm of Phelps and DeLano, continuing in that partnership until 1881, when he abandoned the practice of law for a time. He resumed in 1882, and has since continued, having at this time a lucrative practice. He was married in this county, September 20, 1871, to Alice Hardenburgh, a native of New York. They have one child, Porter. He is at this time county attorney, and is also employed by different railroads as a regular attorney.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 383-384.
