George Berrian Phelps

GEORGE B. PHELPS, Architect, 1427 F street northwest. Born in North Andover, Mass., in 1857, he spent two years in an architect's office at Salem, Mass.; was appointed as draughtsman in the Office of the Supervising Architect December 18, 1875, and served in that office for eleven years, while he is now practicing his profession in this city. Among other work which he now has in his office may be mentioned an addition to Columbia Hospital. A new ward building in which great care has been taken in construction, and in which all the essentials of a first-class hospital may be seen—thorough ventilation and heating, sanitary plumbing, etc.; walls finished with Keen's cement. Also a house for Mr. T. A. Lambert, on Massachusetts avenue, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Three houses for Captain George W. Shears, Rhode Island avenue and Iowa Circle. Two houses for Mr. John Savary, on M street, between New Hampshire avenue and Twenty-second street, and a house for Dr. J. T. Johnson on K street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth. Among completed work may be mentioned Commodore Sicard's house on Highland Terrace, Plymouth Church, corner of Seventeenth and P streets northwest, and R. B. Taylor's house on Stoughton street.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Washington: Historical Sketches of the Capital City of Our Country
• Published 1887
• Original from the New York Public Library
• Digitized Apr 24, 2008
• Length 3 pages
• Page 280
• https://books.google.com/books?id=IJAZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280&lpg=PA280&d...

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x Sarah Wallace, (Weed) b. 12 Feb., 1829; m. 26 Mar., 1851, Reuel Alfred, s. of Dr. Ebenezer Smith Phelps, of Middleton, b. 15 May, 1824; d. 12 Aug., 1875.

They had:

1 Henry Lewis, (Phelps) b. 4 Oct., 1852; is a civil engineer; unm.

2 William Wallace, b. 31 Aug., 1854; farmer; unm.

3 George Berrian, b. 10 May, 1857; m. 8 June, 1880, Mary Margaret J. Finney, b. in Steubenville, O., 1 Oct., 1859; he was a boot and shoe manufacturer in Washington, D. C.; d. of typhoid fever, 1 Aug., 1890, at his res. 810 R, I. Ave. , Wash., D. C. They had: (1) Reuel George, b. 6 June, 1889.

4 Sarah Lizzie, b. 6 Jan., 1859; unm.

5 Lucy Rust, b. 8 July, 1860; d. 5 July, 1879.

6 Mary Weed, b. 17 Apr., 1870; d. 28 July, 1870.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Record of the Rust Family: Embracing the Descendants of Henry Rust, who Came from England and Settled in Hingham, Mass., 1634-1635
• Author Albert Dexter Rust
• Publisher A. Rust, 1891
• Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized Nov 1, 2007
• Length 527 pages
• Pages 96-102
• https://books.google.com/books?id=QrZOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&d...