| 词条 | Timothy Guy Phelps |
| 释义 |
| name=Timothy Guy Phelps | image=Timothy Guy Phelps.jpg | caption= | state1 = California | district1 = at-large | term_start1 =March 4, 1861 | term_end1 = March 3, 1863 | predecessor1 =John Chilton Burch | successor1 = Cornelius Cole | office2 = Member of the California State Assembly | term2 = 1855–1857 | birth_date={{birth date|1824|12|20}} | birth_place=Oxford, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1899|6|11|1824|12|20}} | death_place =near San Carlos, California }} Timothy Guy Phelps (December 20, 1824 – June 11, 1899) was an American politician, businessman and government official. He was the first president of the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1865 until 1868 and saw the railroad build its first tracks south of San Francisco, California. BiographyEarly yearsPhelps was born in Oxford, New York, and completed preparatory schooling there and then moved to New York City in 1845 where he worked in mercantile for a short time, then returned to Chenango County to study law.[1][2] As soon as word of the mid-century gold finds in California reached New York, Phelps took a boat to the west coast.[1] He arrived in San Francisco, California, via Panama, on December 14, 1849[2] and he moved to Tuolumne County, California where he tried his hand at mining.[1] Failing to find a fortune in gold, he moved to San Francisco to resume a career in the mercantile,[1] starting a merchant house in August 1850.[2] CareerPhelps' business losses were substantial in the great fire of May 1851, but Phelps rebuilt and soon recovered his loss.[2] It was during this period of recovery that he purchased {{convert|3500|acres}} of land in what is now San Mateo County, California.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} He used the land for farming and soon decided to make the area, now the city of San Carlos, his home.[9] Living in San Carlos, in 1851 Phelps became involved in the local vigilance committee in an effort to uphold the law.[9] Following a failed state assembly bid in 1854, when he ran with Col. E.D. Baker,[2] Phelps was elected to the California State Assembly in 1855 and served until 1857[2] as the first Republican from San Francisco and San Mateo Counties.[1] During his term, he served on the first Grand Jury on August 1, 1856.[9] He introduced "An Act to reorganize and establish the County of San Mateo" in March 1857.[9] He then was served in the California State Senate from 1858 to 1861.[2] During the 1859 Republican California state convention, his name was advanced as a potential nominee for governor, but he withdrew in favor of Leland Stanford.[2] In a subsequent 1861 Republican state convention, he ran for the Republican nomination for governor, but was defeated by Stanford, 197 votes to 104.[2] Following the 1861 convention, he was elected to the 37th United States Congress where he served from March 4, 1861 until March 3, 1863.[1] When the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad was built in the 1860s, the right of way from Redwood City to Belmont was granted from Phelps's land.[9] His next job was in real estate until 1870 when he became the customs collector for the port of San Francisco (until 1872).[1] In 1875, he won the Republican nomination for Governor of California, but he was defeated by the Democratic candidate William Irwin,[1] in part aided by disgruntled Republicans who ran John Bidwell as an independent candidate.[2] In 1888, Phelps ran for Congress again, but was defeated by the Democrat Thomas J. Clunie.[2] He also served as a regent of the University of California at Berkeley from 1878 until his death.[1][9] Personal lifeHe married Sophronia J. Jewell (born Nov 13, 1824), of Guilford, New York on September 13, 1853.[3] Sophronia died on {{death date and age|1869|09|12|1824|11|13}}[4] and Phelps was remarried to Josephine A. McLean in 1870.[5] He died at age 74 on June 11, 1899 near San Carlos, California after he was struck by two boys on a tandem bicycle.[1][6] The cyclists turned themselves in after learning of his death,[7][8] and charges against them were dropped on June 20, 1899 after they related their account of the accident.[9] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web |title=PHELPS, Timothy Guy |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000300 |author= |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |accessdate=August 1, 2014 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808052455/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000300 |archivedate=August 8, 2014 |df=mdy-all }} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18990612.2.8 |title=Hon. Timothy Guy Phelps dead |author= |date=12 June 1899 |newspaper=Sacramento Daily Union |volume=97 |number=111 |accessdate=13 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818001728/http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18990612.2.8 |archivedate=August 18, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} 3. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IChWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA50 |title=The Jewell register: containing a list of the descendants of Thomas Jewell, of Braintree, near Boston, Mass |date=1860 |page=50 |publisher=Case, Lockwood and Company |location=Hartford |accessdate=13 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126184958/https://books.google.com/books?id=IChWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA50 |archivedate=January 26, 2018 |df=mdy-all }} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/cem-ny-chenango-guilford-sunset-hill-cemetery.htm |title=Sunset Hill Cemetery Records, Town of Guilford, Chenango County, New York |author= |date=2010 |website=New Horizons Genealogical Services |accessdate=13 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160702070216/http://newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/cem-ny-chenango-guilford-sunset-hill-cemetery.htm |archivedate=July 2, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} 5. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011725171 |title=History of San Mateo County: from the earliest times with a description of its resources and advantages; and the biographies of its representative men |author1=Alexander, Philip W. |author2=Hamm, Charles P. |publisher=Burlingame Publishing Company |location=Burlingame, California |date=1916 |pages=186–189 |accessdate=5 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819115543/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011725171 |archivedate=August 19, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite news |url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990612.2.31 |title=Career of T.G. Phelps is closed |author= |date=12 June 1899 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=86 |number=12 |accessdate=13 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818011259/http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990612.2.31 |archivedate=August 18, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18990613.2.11 |title=Slayers of Phelps Give Themselves Up to the San Francisco Police |author= |date=13 June 1899 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |accessdate=13 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818003232/http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18990613.2.11 |archivedate=August 18, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} 8. ^{{cite news |url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990613.2.136 |title=Caused the death of Timothy Guy Phelps (ill.) |author= |date=13 June 1899 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=86 |number=13 |accessdate=13 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818000021/http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990613.2.136 |archivedate=August 18, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990621.2.56 |title=Charge against cyclers dropped |author= |date=21 June 1899 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=86 |number=21 |accessdate=13 August 2016 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817230721/http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990621.2.56 |archivedate=August 17, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}
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