The Phelps
- Elisha Phelps (1779–1847), Connecticut State Representative 1807 1812 1814-1818 1821 1829 1835, U.S. Representative from Connecticut 1819-1821 1825-1829, Connecticut State Senator 1822-1824, Connecticut Comptroller 1831-1837. Father of John S. Phelps.
- John S. Phelps (1814–1886), Missouri State Representative 1840, U.S. Representative from Missouri 1845-1863, Governor of Missouri 1877-1881. Son of Elisha Phelps.
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Famous quotes containing the word phelps:
“... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a good blacksmith more than a lady of leisure.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor’s ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)