Social Victorians/People/Phelps

Also Known As

• Family name: Phelps
• Mr. Edward J. Phelps
• Mrs. Mary Phelps
• Mr. Charles P. Phelps
• Mr. C. P. Phelps

Demographics

• Nationality: American

Family

• Edward John Phelps (11 July 1822 – 9 March 1900)
• Mary S. Haight in 1847; the marriage produced 3 children:

1. Edward Haight Phelps (1847–1884)
2. Mary Haight Phelps Loomis (1857–1911)
3. Charles Pierpont Phelps (1861–1912)

Organizations

• Envoy to Court of St. James's in Britain (1885 - 1889)
• Senior Counsel for the U.S. at the international tribunal in Paris to settle the Bering Sea Controversy (1893)

Timeline

1847, Edward John Phelps and Mary S. Haight married.

1885 - 1889, Edward J. Phelps was in London as Envoy to the Court of St. James's.

Questions and Notes

1. Charles Pierpont Phelps seems to have been in London with his parents in the late 1880s.
2. People from this family attended a number of social events in the late 1880s.

Bibliography

• "Edward John Phelps." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_John_Phelps (accessed July 2020).