Biography

04/17/1807 - 12/08/1879

PHELPS, Darwin, a Representative from Armstrong, Clarion and Jefferson Counties; born, April 17, 1807 in East Granby, Hartford County, Ct.; attended, Western University (now University of Pittsburgh); major, 22^nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1862, Civil War); attorney (1831-1879); elected, council, Kittanning, Pa. (1841, 1848); elected, burgess, Kittanning (1844, 1845, 1849, 1852, 1855, 1858, 1859); elected as an American to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1856 term; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Auditor General (1856); elected, delegate, Republican National Convention (1860); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1860, 1871); elected, United States Congress (1869-1871); died, December 8, 1879 in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; interred, Kittanning Cemetery, Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.