Identifier: biographicalhist10elio (find matches)
Title: Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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tyin the sophomore year of the class of 1872. Owing to circumstances he gave up his college course after one year of happy work and companionship, but the experience at Cornell made an impress and contributed satisfactions which lasted as long as he lived. His mind was far too active to fail in development, much as he regretted the loss of further academic training. Mr. Phelps began business life in Syracuse, but his opportunities afforded no strong hope for satisfactory advancement. His eldest sister, then in Syracuse on a visit and about to return to her home on the Pacific Coast, urged him to go there with her and try his fortune in that land of enthusiastic enterprise. Port Townsend was at that time one of the most thriving places on Puget Sound, and it was there that Mr. Phelps located, but after a year he decided to return East and look for a business opening nearer home. He came to Boston where he soon became associated in the business with which he was identified all the rest of his life.
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GEORGE HENRY PHELPS. He was always keenly interested in scientific matters, and he had a practical ingenuity which delighted in the application of mechanics, giving direction to many of the pleasures of boyhood, and being of essential service in meeting the tasks and the problems of later life. In this connection it should be mentioned that he took out several patents in the development of his manufacturing interests. A striking characteristic of Mr. Phelps was his uprightness and the intensity and thoroughness with which he gave himself to whatever he undertook, whether of work or play. There were no half-hearted interests in his scheme of life, and he was able to turn from the absorbing plans and cares of business to a simila rconcentration of interest and energy in some out-of-door sport, like golf, or the organization of a dramatic club like The Players of which he was one of the founders. He was very fond of music also, and derived much pleasure from that source. These contrasting activitie

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