Dudley Fairley Phelps in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts – December 30, 1880 in New York City.
Education
He attended Andover Theologigal Seminary, and graduated from Yale College in 1853. Then he studied law in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire and Westchester County, New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1855 in Poughkeepsie, New New York
Career
He was the only child of the Review Dudley Phelps (1797–1849), a Congregational clergyman, and Ann (Kinsman) Phelps (1808–1834). In October 1857, Phelps married Hannah M. Catlin, a daughter of Lieutenant
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Julius Catlin, and they had three children. From 1866 to 1870, Phelps was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New New York In 1869, he was sent to North Carolina to take charge of the proceedings against the officers of the United States Ship Hornet, charged with a violation of the Neutrality laws.
In November 1872, Phelps was elected on the Republican ticket New York County District Attorney, and remained in office until his death, being re-elected in 1875 and 1878.
In October 1880, Phelps became ill, and never fully recovered. Phelps was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York).