Identifier: menofmarkinconne00osbo (find matches)
Title: Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Osborn, Norris Galpin, b. 1858, ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- Biography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., W.R. Goodspeed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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unker, 1898; Ways of Wood Folk, 1899; Wilderness Ways,1900; Beasts of the Field, and Fowls of the Air, 1901; Fol-lowing the Deer, 1903; School of the Woods, 1902; A LittleBrother to the Bear, 1903; Northern Trails, 1905; BrierPatch Philosophy, 1906; and English Life and Literature, 1907;the last named book being a scholarly history of Literature in Eng-land from the first landing of the Anglo-Saxons until the presentday. His animal books show an intense love of nature and her folk,careful and patient study of their ways, and are as attractive in styleas they are interesting and instructive in their nature. In 1900 the author married Frances Marsh Bancroft, daughter ofProfessor Cecil F. P. Bancroft, LL.D., of Andover, Massachusetts.Three children, Lois, Frances, and Bancroft Long, have been bomto them. Dr. Long makes his present home in Stamford, where, inaddition to his literary work, public lectures, and preaching, a part ofhis time is always given to charitable work in his own city.
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CHARLES PHELPS PHELPS, CHARLES, lawyer and states attorney, TollandCounty, Connecticut, was born in East Hartford, Connecticut,August 10th, 1852. His earliest ancestors in America wereWilliam and Georjjo Phelps who emif^rated from Tewksbury, Eng-land, to New England iu IGW. George Phelps first settled inDorchester, Massachusetts, and came to Windsor, Connecticut, in1035, moving again to Westfield, Mai?sachusetts, where he died in1687. Mr. Phelps is in the eighth generation of descent from thisGeorge Phelps, the line of his descent being through Jacob, Benjamin,Benjamin (2), Benjamin (3), Levi and the Rev. Benjamin C. Phelps,the last being ^Ir. Phelps father, a Methodist clergyman who wasalso chaplain and librarian of the Connecticut States Prison. Mr.Phelps fatlier was above evervtliing else a hard worker, and besidesthese offices and his pastorate he went as missionary to the whalemenin the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Mr. Phelps mother wasSarah Parker Humphrey and her influence

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