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tributed to the press and to the leading magazines, and is the author of : Pacific Railway Communi- cations and the Trade of China (1854); A Statis- tical Vieio of the State of Illinois (1854) ; The American Crisis ; or, Pages from the Note Book of a State Agent during the Civil War in America (1866) ; Over the AUeghanies and across the Prairies, Personal Recollections of the Far West, One and Twenty Years Ago (1867); Memoir of William Madison Peyton (1870); Tlie Adventures of My Grandfather (1871); Memorials of Nature and Art (1881) ; ^4. History of Augusta County (1882); Ramhling Reminiscences of a Residence Abroad (1886), and A History of Virginia from the Retrocession of Alexandria to the Reconstruc- tion of the Union. He also edited and wrote an introduction to " The Glasse of Time " by Thomas Peyton of Lincoln's Inn (1887). and edited "' Tom Swindel, or the Adventures of a Boomer" (1898). See life in Brock's "Virginia and Virginians." He died in Staunton. Va.. May 23, 1896.

PEYTON, Samuel Oldham, representative, was born in Bullitt county, Ky., in 1804 ; son of Wil- liam and Mary (Ross) Peyton ; grandson of Craven and Ann Peyton, and of Lawrence and

(Oldham) Ross, and a descendant of

Henry and Ellen (Partington) Peyton. He was graduated at Transylvania university, M.D., in 1827. He was married to Mary Kincheloe ; prac- tised medicine in Hartford, Ky. ; represented Bul- litt county in the state legislature in 1835 ; was a Democratic representative from Kentucky in the 30th, 85th and 36th congresses, 1847-49 and 1857-61, and was defeated for the 31st congress in 1848. He was a member of the committee on public buildings and grounds in the 36th congress. He died in Hartford, Ky., Jan. 4, 1870.

PHELAN, James, senator, was born in Hunts- ville, Ala., Oct. 11, 1821 ; son of John and Priscilla Oakes (Ford) Morris Phelan, and grandson of Dennis Phelan, who emigrated from Maryborough, Queen's county, Ireland, to New York city, with his wife, Mary (Lalor) Phelan, and cliildren in 1793, and resided in New Jersey, Virginia and Alabama. James served an apprenticeship in the office of the Huntsville Democrat, 1835-42, be- came editor of The Flag of the Union at Tuska- loosa in 1842, and state printer in 1843. He was married, Sept. 22, 1846, to Eliza J., daughter of Dr. Alfred and Eliza (Jones) Moore of Madison county, N.J. He practised law in Huntsville, 1846-49, and in Aberdeen, Miss., 1849-05. He was a state senator in 1860, and Confederate States senator, 1862-64. He introduced in the Confederate senate in 1863, a bill to impress all the cotton in the South, pay for it in Confederate bonds and use it as a basis for a foreign loan. This bill failed to pass, and Mr. Phelan was de- feated in the next senatorial election. He served

as judge advocate of Alabama, 1864-65, and then resumed the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn., where he died, May 17, 1873.

PHELAN, James, representative, was born in Aberdeen, Miss., Dec. 7, 1856 ; son of Judge James and Eliza J. (Moore) Phelan. He removed to Memphis, Tenn., with his parents, 1867, and was educated in the Kentucky Military institute, the literary department of the University of Nash- ville, and at University of Mississippi, where he matriculated in 1872. He went to Europe in 1874, and completed his education in the Gymnasium of St. Thomas, and at the University of Leipzig, where he received the degree Ph.D. in 1878. In 1881 he settled in the practice of law in Memphis, and was married, Oct. 15 of that year, to Mary, daughter of Dr. Robert Early of Lynchburg, Va. He was a Democratic representative from the tenth Tennessee district in the 50th and 51st con- gresses, 1887-91. He died in Nassau, Bahama Is- lands, seeking relief from phthisis, Jan. 30, 1891.

PHELAN, Richard, R. C. bishop, was born at Tralee, county Limerick, Ireland, Jan. 1, 1828. He was educated in St. Kieran's college, Kilkenny. He immigrated to the United States with Bishop Michael O'Connor of Pittsburg, Pa., in 1850, on the latter's call for students to take up the work of the church in his diocese, and prepared for the priesthood in St. Michael's seminary, Pittsburg, and in St. Mary's Theological seminary, Balti- more, Md. He was ordained priest at Pittsburg, Pa., by Bishop O'Connor, May 4, 1854, was charged with a small mission at Camerons Bottoms, In- diana county. Pa., and was assistant rector at St. Paul's cathedral, Pittsburg, Pa., 1855-58. He was rector of the church at Free port. Pa., 1858- 68, and of St. Peter's church at Allegheny, Pa., 1868-85, where he built a church at a cost of $150,000, and completed the schools commenced by the Rev. Tobias Mullen. In 1881 he was ap- pointed administrator of the diocese of Pittsburg and Allegheny, during the absence of Bishop Tuigg, and vicar-general in 1883, and was nomi- nated coadjutor of the two sees with the right of succession in 1885. He was consecrated titular bishop of Cibyra at Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 2, 1885. by Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, assisted by Bishops Mullen and Shanahan, and succeeded to the full bishopric on the death of Bishop Tuigg. Dec. 7, 1889, taking up his residence at Pittsburg, the see city, in 1891.

PHELPS, Almira (Hart) Lincoln, educator, was born in Berlin, Conn.. July 15, 1793 ; daugh- ter of Capt. Samuel and Lydia (Hinsdale) Hart ; granddaughter of Lieut. Samuel and Mary (Hooker) Hart and of Capt. John and Elizabeth (Cole) Hinsdale, and a descendant of Thomas Hooker and of Stephen Hart, who came from Essex. England, to Massachusetts about 1632,