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settled first at Braintree and then in Newtown, and was an original proprietor of Hartford, Conn., in 1G35. She was instructed by lier sister, Mrs. Emma Hart WiUard (ii-v.), whoni she assisted at Middlebury, Vt., and completed her education in the Female academy, Pittsfield, Mass. She taught a private school at Middletown, Conn., was again with her sister at Middlebury and was prin- cipal of the Sandy Hill, N.Y., Female academy, 1815-17. Slie was married, Oct. 15, 1817, to Simeon Lincoln, Jr., and after his death she became head teaclier in the department of natural science in Mrs. Willard's seminary at Troy, N.Y., and vice-principal of the seminar\' in 1827, managing it while her sister was in Europe. She was mar- ried secondly, in 1831, to Judge John Phelps of Vermont, and retired from active educational work until 1838, when slie became principal of the West Chester, Pa., Female seminary. She was subsequently principal of a private school at Railway, N.J.. and conducted, with her husband, the Patapsco institute, a diocesan female school at Baltimore. Md., 1841-1849, where she remained alone, 1849-56. She was the second woman to be elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and read before that body papers on the religious and scientific character and writings of Edward Hitchcock (18GG), and the "Infidel Tendencies of Modern Science " (1878). Slie was also a member of the Maryland Academy of Science, to which society she gave her herbarium containing about 600 specimens. She is the author of: Familiar Lec- tures on Botany (1829); Dictionary of Chemistry (1830); Botany for Beginners (1831); Geology for Beginners (1832); Female Student or Fireside Friend (1833); Cliemistry for Beginners (1834); Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1835); Lectures on Chemistry (1837); Natural Philosophy for BeginJiers {1837 ); Ida Xor man (ISoO); Christian Households (1860); Hours with My Pujiils {ISG9}; Autumn Fruits (1873), and Preserved in the Win- ter o/Lj/c (1873). She also edited: Our Coun- try, in its Relation to the Past, Present and Future (1868), and the proceeds from its sale were de- voted to the Christian and sanitary commis- sions. She diod in Baltimore, Md., July 15, 1884. PHELPS, Austin, clergyman, was born in "West Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1820; son of Eliakim and Sarah (Adams) Phelps; grandson of Eliakim and Abigail (Combes) PJielps, and a descendant of William Plielps, who came from Tewksbury, England, to America in the ship Mary and John in 1630, settled first at Hull and then in Dorcliester, Mass., and Windsor. Conn., in 1635. He attended Hobart college, 183:3-34; Amherst college in 1835; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania. A.B., 1837, A.M.. 1840; was resident licentiate at the Andover

Tlieological seminary, 1838-42; was licensed to preach in 1840, and was pastor of the Pine St. Congregational church, Boston, Mass., 1842-48. He was professor of homiletics and sacreil rhetoric in Andover Theological seminary, 1S48-79, pro- fessor emeritus, 1879-90, and president of the seminary, 1869-79. He served as chaplain of both houses of the Massachusetts legislature and preached the "election sermon" in 1861. He was married in September, 1842, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Moses Stuart of Andover; secondly in April, 1855, to Mary, her .sister, and thirdly in June, 1858, to Mary A., daugliter of Samuel Johnson of Boston, Mass. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Amlierst in 1856. He edited Hymns and Choirs with Prof. Edwards A. Park and Rev. David Furber (1859); Sabbath Hymn-Book with Prof. Park and Dr. Lowell Mason (1859), and is the author of: The Still Hour (1858), which had a large circulation in America and abroad; The New Birth (1867); 77)6 Solitude of Christ (1868); Sabbath Hours (1870); Studies of the. Old Testament (1878); TJieory and Practice of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics (1882); My Portfolio (1882); English Style in Public Discourse (1883): My Studies and other Essays (1886); My Note-Book; Fragmentary Studies in Tlieology and Subjects Adjacent Thereto (1889); besides addresses and contributions to the Congregationalist and other periodicals. See " Memoir " by Mrs. E. S. P. Ward (1891). He died at Bar Harbor, Maine, Oct. 13, 1890.

PHELPS, Charles Edward, jurist, was born in Guilford, Vt., May 1, 1833; son of John and Almira (Hart) Lincoln (q.v.) Phelps; grandson of Capt. Samuel Hart, a soldier in the Revolu- tion, and a colonial champion of religious libferty; great-grandson of Charles Phelps, the first lawyer who set- tled in Vermont, and a descendant of Wil- liam Phelps, who came from England in 1630, and of the Rev. Thomas Hooker (q.v.). He removed to Maryland in 1841; was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1855; studied law at Harvard; be- came a practising law- yer in Baltimore in 1855, and was adrtiitted to prac- tice in the U.S. supreme court in 1859. He was elected on the Reform ticket a member of the city council of Baltimore in 1860; was one of the organizers and major of the Maryland Guard,