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An excerpt from the publication "Past and Present of DeKalb County, Illinois, Volume 1" by Lewis M Gross, H. W. Fay, page 346:
In Sycamore was celebrated the marriage of John R. Chatfield and Miss Clarinda Phelps, who was born in De Kalb county, Illinois, in 1859, a daughter of Samuel Phelps, an early resident of the county, who remained here until his death, which occurred in 1882 when he was about sixty-eight years of age. He sailed for nine years on the Great Lakes, rising from cabin boy to first mate. His wife, who bore the maiden name Dorcas Campbell, survived him until 1894 and died at the age of seventy-two years. They came to the middle west from the vicinity of Syracuse, New York, and for some years after their arrival Mr. Phelps engaged in the cultivation of rented land but afterward bought a farm in Sycamore township and there made his home until he was called to his final rest. He took an active and helpful part in the early pioneer development of this portion of the state and was well known as a frontier settler. The Phelps family numbered eleven children. Those still living are: Mrs. Alonzo Gordon, of Kane county, Illinois; Mrs. Lyman Ewings, also of Kane county; James, a veteran of the One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry and now a retired farmer living in Rockford, Illinois; Benjamin, who is shipping clerk in the People's Furniture Store at Omaha, Nebraska; Mrs. Hiram Ewings and Mrs. Myron Corser, who are residents of Cherryvale, Kansas; Mrs. Nyron Black , of Arkansas City, Kansas; and Mrs. J. O. Westlake, of Sycamore.