Biography of Daniel Phelps, page 579.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Daniel Phelps, farmer and stock-raiser, Fairfield Township, was born in 
Stark County, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1830, a son of William and Magdeline (Marsh)
Phelps, the former a native of Maryland, of English descent, and the latter 
of Virginia, of German descent.  He attended the public schools till ten 
years of age, when his father died and he was then obliged to rely upon his 
own resources, and from that time till his marriage worked for farmers by 
the month.  He was married Nov. 20, 1853, to Hannah, daughter of Peter 
Freed.  In the fall of 1854 they moved to De Kalb County, Ind., where his 
wife died.  Their only child died in infancy.  He was again married June 20, 
1858, to Delilah Risely, a native of Stark County, Ohio, daughter of Elias 
and Catherine (Livingston) Risely.  They have had three children; two are 
living---Amanda and Lovina.  One child died in infancy.  Mr. Phelps has one 
of the best farms in the township, which he has brought from heavily 
timbered condition to a state of advanced cultivation.  He and his wife are 
members of the German Baptist church.  He in politics casts his suffrage 
with the Republican party.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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