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DEATH OF HON. E. ]. PHELPS
ONE OF THE FOREMOST OF AMERI-
GIN DIPLOM1TISTS.

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dcnce in This city Late Yesterda
Afternoon--Thc Funeral Services VIII
he Held In BatteII Chapel To-morro,
Afternoon-Imtermcn VIII be i'm Bur
| Iington, VI.
Hon. e. J. Phelps, ex-United State
minister to Great Britain, died abou
| 430 yesterday afternoon at his NeV
Haven residence, No. 269 Humphre.
street Professor Phelps was taken il
carly in January, his illness starting
with a bad cold, which developed int
pneumonia. His wonderful vitality ell
abled him to withstand the ravages o
| that dread disease and he rallied
one time and it was thought that IL
| would recover Complications set In
however, and for the last four weeks ht
bad been steadily failing. At his bed
side when the end came yesterday at
ternoon were his wife, his son, Charles
Phelps, and his daughter, Mrs. Loomi:
OF New York.
The funeral services will be held al
Battell chapel at o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. The interment will be il
Burlington, VT.
Edward John Phelps, one of the fore:
most of American lawyers and diplo
mats, was born in Middlebury VT, or
July II, 1922, his father being Samue
Phelps Of that place, United States SEN
Aor from Vermont and member OF
the supreme court bench of that state
He graduated from Middlebury college
in 1S40 and then studied law for year
in the Yale Law school. In 1S43 he was
admitted to the bar in Middiebury. He
removed to Burlington, VT, in 1845 and
practiced his profession there for a
number of years In 1851 he was APP
pointed to his first office under the ma
tional government, being appointed in
that year second comptroller of the
United States treasury under President
Fillmore, an office which he held until
1853.
In 1870 he was a delegate to the con-
stitutional convention and presided
over the centennial celebration in 1876
and was the president of the celebration
of the battle of Bennington, which was
held in 1877 In 1870 Middlebury college
conferred upon him the degree of LII.
d.; in 1887 the University of Vermont
and in 1889 Harvard university con-
ferred upon him the same degree. In
1881 Yale university conferred upon
him the degree of LII. d.
In 1880 he was president of the Amer
lean Bar association and in the same
year was democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Vermont, but was defeated.
Since 1875 he had been Kent professor
of law in the Yale Law school. In 1885
President Cleveland appointed him
minister to Great Britain, a post which
he filled with great credit to himself and
to his country. In 1893 he served as
counsel for the United States govern
ment on the court of arbitration in the
Bering sea controversy. He was up to
the time of his death Kent professor of
law In the Yale Law school and his lee
lures have up to the present time been
posted on the Law school bulletin board
each week with the other lectures and
but during his Illness have
been marked omitted each week until
the course was taken UP by Judge Will
liam X Townsend. The students in the
Law school always looked forward to
his lectures with much pleasure and he
was the most popular lecturer of the
school.
Sharp opposition to his appointment
as minister to Englan arose on the
ground that Professor Phelps was
and the old line democrats
bitterly protested. Ii proved one of
the most successful appointments made
by the administration Professor Phelps
presided gracefully as minister pleni-
despite the protest which
went up largely from England, but to
a minor degree even in this country,
that James Russell Lowell should be
by man with an almost
unknown reputation internationally.
The career of Professor Phelps in Eng
and silenced all criticism and was
diplomatic as well as a social triumph
'or the American ambassador Profess
ior Phelps went directly from the Yale
Law school to his position in England.
Upon his return from England at the
md of Cleveland's administration Pro-
essor Phelps returned to his duties at
Yale, lecturing on constitutional and
academic department in addition to lee
uring in the Law school. He spent his
at his home in Burlington,
IT., and annually returned to this city
bout ia .uary l, when he took up his
esidence on Humphrey street, to re-
main till the close of the school year in
une.
In 1892 he was appointed American
on the Bering Sea fish,
ries international question. Two years
go he was seriously i'll with pneumonia
nut recovered.
As a writer as well as q diplomatist
Professor Phelps has won a national
lace. Aside from his published lee
ures on medical Jurisprudence he is
he author of a published address given
before the American Bar as
on "Chief Justice Marshall
nd the Constitutional Law Of His |
'ime'' In 1883. he contributed to the
nineteenth Century a series of articles |
II "The Constitution of the United |
tates.
PROFESSOR HURBARD DEAD.