Bios: Zadock Walker Phelan, 1838 -  & R. H. Phelan 1836 - : Waynesburg, Greene County

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History of Greene County, Pennsylvania, By Samuel P. Bates, Chicago, 1888

Pg. 691
ZADOCK WALKER PHELAN, manufacturer, foundryman and machinist, is a
member of the firm of Bower & Phelan, Waynesburg, Penn., where he was
born June 21, 1838.  He is a son of John and Jane (WALKER) PHELAN.  His
mother was born in Fayette County, Penn.  His father, a native of Greene
County, was an attorney by profession, practiced in Waynesburg for many
years and represented his county in the State Legislature.  His family
consists of five sons and one daughter.  Z. W., the third in the family,
was reared in Waynesburg and educated in the college.  He learned the
cabinet-maker's trade and carried on the furniture business in
Waynesburg; then went to Kansas and shared the struggles of that young
State, and in 1884 he began his present business.  Mr. Phelan's wife was
Miss Harriet, daughter of J. Wesley CHAMBERS of Washington County,
Penn.  They have three children - Anna W., John Charles and Zadock
Walker.  Mr. and Mrs. Phelan are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in which he has held many important positions.  He is a strong
advocate of the temperance cause and votes the Prohibition ticket.  He
was the first county chairman of the party, and a candidate on the first
ticket issued by the party.

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Typed by :Sherry Norton  - dnorton@earthlink.net

History of Greene County, Pennsylvania, By Samuel P. Bates, Chicago, 1888

Pg. 691-2
R. H. PHELAN, attorney and counsellor at law, was born at Waynesburg,
February 21, 1836, and is a son of Hon. John and Jane (WALKER) PHELAN,
his mother was a native of Maryland, and was of English and Irish
descent.  His father, who was an attorney, was born in this county, of
which he was prothonotary for about twelve years.  He was elected a
member of the State Legislature in 1867, and served two terms.  He died
August 31, 1874.  R. H. Phelan is the second in a family of six
children.  He was reared in Waynesburg and attended the common school
and college.  He went to the territory of Kansas in 1854 and remained
until 1861, when he returned to Waynesburg and subsequently studied law
in the office of his father and Hon C. A. Black.  He was admitted to the
bar in 1867, and has been in active practice ever since.  Mr. Phelan is
a Democrat.  He has been a member of the town council, and is a trustee
of the Presbyterian Church.  His grandfather, Richard H. Phelan, was
born in Ireland, and case (sic) to Greene County, Penn., at an early
date.  He served on the first grand jury in 1796.  R. H. Phelan is
president of Green Mount Cemetery Company, treasurer of the Waynesburg
Park Company, and a director in the Farmers' and Drovers' National Bank
of Waynesburg.

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