Isaac Phelps
Isaac Phelps, retired, Ravenna, was born in Berkshire County, Mass., September 12, 1809; son of Zacheus and Rebecca Phelps, both of Puritan stock. Lewis Phelps, brother of our subject, located in Freedom Township, this county, in 1830, the latter in same township, in 1837. Our subject began dealing in stock and has made thirty-seven trips overland, generally by way of Buffalo, with stock which he sold in the land of his nativity. He subsequently engaged in the dairy business and since his retirement has erected sixteen houses on the west side of Ravenna, thereby adding to its growth and improvement. His marriage with Lucinda Sage, of Berkshire, Mass., occurred in 1832. She died in 1875, in the sixty-sixth year of her age, the mother of ten children, four of whom survive: Simeon S., Isaac H., Rodney L. and Mark W. An infant son, George Y., died July 24. 1842, aged six weeks; Charles T. died February 12, 1867, aged twelve years; H. Dwight died July 2, 1869, aged thirty-three years; Hattie S. died February 9, 1872, aged twenty-three years; Darwin E. died December 1, 1874, aged forty-one years, and Mary H. died March 24, 1878, aged thirty-nine years. Mr. Phelps married on second occasion, February 11, 1877, Mrs. Mary J., widow of Jerome Hinckley. The family is among the oldest and most respected in this locality.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885