- NOAH PHELPS was born May 21, 1808 at Turin, Lewis County,
New York. He was educated
- for a surveyor and in 1833 secured the position of assistant
surveyor in Wisconsin, then a part of Michigan Territory. He
laid out the township lines of Green, Dane, and Rock counties.
In 1835 he married in New York; three years later he removed
to a farm in Green County, Wisconsin. In 1841 he was appointed
county surveyor, in 1842 tax collector. In 1845 and 1846 he represented
his county in the territorial assembly. In the constitutional
convention to which he was elected on the Democratic ticket,
Mr. PHELPS served with acceptability on the committee on banks
and banking. In 1848-50 Mr. PHELPS was clerk of the circuit court,
and in 1855 justice of the peace. He lived the remainder of his
life on a farm near Monroe and there died July 29, 1896. Manuscript
record.
- [Taken from "Wisconsin Historical Publications -
Collections, Vol. XXVII - Constitutional Series, Vol. II"
edited by Milo Milton Quaife; (c)1918 Democrat Printing Co.,
Madison, WI; p. 786]
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