. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. Society and of the Yale Alumni Asso- ALBERT LFE admirable handbook published in 1897. He wasmarried in 1895 to Blanche Coit, and has one son,Norman Coit Lee. PHELPS, Benjamin Kinsman Yale , in Haverhill, Mass., 1832; graduated Yale,1853; admitted to New York Bar, 1855; practised lawin New York City with Sherman W. Knevals until hisdeath; Assistant United States District Attorney,1866-70; District Atto
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. Society and of the Yale Alumni Asso- ALBERT LFE admirable handbook published in 1897. He wasmarried in 1895 to Blanche Coit, and has one son,Norman Coit Lee. PHELPS, Benjamin Kinsman Yale , in Haverhill, Mass., 1832; graduated Yale,1853; admitted to New York Bar, 1855; practised lawin New York City with Sherman W. Knevals until hisdeath; Assistant United States District Attorney,1866-70; District Attorney of the City and County ofNew York, 1872, and was twice re-elected, holdingoffice until his death ; died 1880. B1:NJAMIN KINSMAN PHELPS, , Law-yer, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts,September i6, 1832. His father, the Rev. DudleyPhelps, was a Congregational clergyman, a graduateof Yale in the Class of 1S23. The subject of thissketch prepared for College under the guidance ofprivate tutors, matriculated at Yale, and graduatedin 1853, subsequently receiving the degree of Mas-ter of Arts in course. After graduation he studiedlaw in New Hampshire for two years, when he. BENJAMIN K. PHELPS elation, and a member of many other clubs andorganizations. He was a man who had alreadymade his mark, and won the respect and honor oiall with whom he became associated, either profes- 174 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS sionally or socially, and it is to be regretted thatsuch a promising life should have been so suddenlyterminated. He died after a short illness, Decem-ber 29, t88o. Mr. Phelps married, October 21,1857, Hannah Maria, daughter of Lieutenant-Gov-ernor Julius Catlin of Hartford, Connecticut. Theyhad three children, all of whom survive : a son,Dudley, graduate of Yale in the Class of 18S3; adaughter, the wife of Dr. William H. Merrill (YaleB. A. 1883, Columbia 1S87); and onedaughter unmarried. of Divinity from Trinity College in 1898. Duringhis residence in Rhode Island he
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