. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. CHARLES H. HARDIN. 38 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL tive executiv^e. Amonof othernoteworthy acts of Governor Har-dins life was the endowment ofHardin College, at Mexico, Mo.,an educational institution foro-irls, named in his honor. John S. Phelps was l)orn De-cember 22, 18U, in Hartford Co.,Connecticut: was educated inHartford at Washino-ton (nowTrinity) Colleoe, and studied lawin the office of his father, ElishaPhelps; emio-rated to Missouri in1837, locatinof at Sprinofield; elect-ed to the Legislature in 1840
. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. CHARLES H. HARDIN. 38 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL tive executiv^e. Amonof othernoteworthy acts of Governor Har-dins life was the endowment ofHardin College, at Mexico, Mo.,an educational institution foro-irls, named in his honor. John S. Phelps was l)orn De-cember 22, 18U, in Hartford Co.,Connecticut: was educated inHartford at Washino-ton (nowTrinity) Colleoe, and studied lawin the office of his father, ElishaPhelps; emio-rated to Missouri in1837, locatinof at Sprinofield; elect-ed to the Legislature in 1840, andJOHN s. PHELPS. four ycars later was sent as a Rep- resentative to the Twenty-ninth Congress, which position he retaineduntil the close of the Thirty-sixth Congress; was a meml)er of theSelect Committee of Thirty-three on the Rebellious States, and wasalso re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress; a Colonel of Volunteersin 1861; Military Governor of Arkansas, by appointment of PresidentLincoln in 1862; Commissioner to settle war claims of Indiana in 1867,and elected Governor of Missouriin 1876. Thomas T. Crittenden, Gov-ern
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