The following biography is in Second Souvenir, by Francis C. Waid, published in 1889.

Levi M. Phelps was born August 3, 1803, in Maryland, and died March 31, 1857, in Minnesota. When he was but four years old his father died, and the boy was reared without education or any chance of improvement. He was a good father, a man who impressed all with whom he associated with the right, and was looked up to as a leader. He was for many years exhorter, steward, class-leader and trustee of his church; was several times school and town officer. He died as he had lived. Shortly before he passed away he said: "I thought religion was good, but I never expected such a triumph. All joy, all peace, all Heaven!" And though dead, he yet speaketh.

His wife, Phebe M., was born July 28, 1808, in Allegany County, N. Y., and died July 29, 1875, in the town of Marion, Minn. She always despised wrong, looked with contempt on anything unchaste or dishonorable. She instructed her children in the right, and left a salutary impress on all she had to do with, and died in the faith. The children of Levi M. and Phebe M. Phelps were as follows:

(1) Nathan S., born February 23, 1826, in Steuben County, N. Y.; married Margaret Waldron February 18, 1870, and has three children, all girls. He resides in Olmsted County, Minn., a wealthy farmer and a man of prominence in church and municipal affairs.

(2) Eleazer C., born March 22, 1827, in Steuben County, N. Y.; married Electa A. Rorman in September, 1750, in Crawford County, Penn., and has four daughters married. He is now a resident of Rochester, Minn.

(8) Thomas W., born April 28, 1829, in Steuben County, N. Y.; married August 29, 1858, at Faribault, Minn., to Eliza Jane Hooner, and has four danghters and one son--Sadie P., Mina E., Thomas L., Emma B. and Jennie L., all living and well to do. He resides in Chester, Olmsted Co., Minn. [At page 340 will be found a brief autobiographical sketch of Thomas W. Phelps.--F. C. W.]

(4) Sarah J., born October 15, 1850, in Steuben County, N. Y.; has never married. She has taught school nearly thirty years, commencing in 1848 in Crawford County, Penn. She is also a resident of Olmsted County, Minn.

(5) Mary A., born April 15, 1832, in Potter County, Penn.; is married and has four children. She was the first of a family of eleven, converted at the meetings held at State Road Church, Crawford Co., Penn., in 1850-51. She now lives in St. Clair County, Mo.

(6) Sylvester N., born September 17, 1833, in Potter County, Penn.; is married and has one child, a daughter. He was converted in December, 1850, at the State Road Church, attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Penn., and moved to Minnesota in September, 1855. Joined the Conference in 1856, and preached nearly twenty years. He owns a very fine farm.

(7) Letitia P., born August 15, 1835, in Steuben County, Penn.; is married and has three children living, all girls. He resides in Rochester, Minn.

(8) Loretta P., born August 8, 1837, died in April, 1874, in Marshall County, Iowa, leaving two children living--one son and one daughter.

(9) Margaret E., born February 18, 1840, in Crawford County, Penn.; married in 1858, and had two children by first marriage; in August, 1864, she lost her husband in the war, and in 1870 she again married, by which union she had three daughters. She died February 9, 1887.

(10) Amelia S., born July 26, 1846, in Crawford County, Penn.; is married, and resides in Marshall County, Iowa.

(11) Emma, born in February, 1848, in Crawford County, Penn.; is married and has one child living. She resides at Crook City, Dak.