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Born: 01/02/1865  New Haven
Died: 08/21/1943
Parents: Rev. Sylvanus Dryden and Sophia Emilia Lyon Phelps
Spouse: Annabel Hubbard (from Michigan's Thumb)
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Annabel inherited the family estate and William christened it "The House of the Seven Gables,” after the Nathanial Hawthorne story of the same name. Her father built the house in 1882 on a bluff overlooking Lake Huron. The couple was married on the estate on December 21, 1892, and it became their summer home.
Phelps converted the space in front of the house from a trotting track into a private 18-hole golf course in 1899 and they lived there part-time from 1893 through 1933, when he retired, and full time through 1938.
Huron City, MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Essays on Things	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, The Macmillan company	1930
	Adventures and Confessions				1926
	Human Nature in the Bible	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Scribner	1922
	Reading the Bible -  "This book is composed of three lectures, on the L.P. Stone Foundation, delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary, on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of February, 1919." Publication years: 1919, 1926, 1935.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Macmillan Company	1919
	Advance of the English Novel - "All the chapters except the last appeared originally in the Bookman; the last was printed in the Yale review for July 1916."	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Dodd, Mead and Company	1916
	Essays on Modern Novelists - Series published regularly through 1929. See MeLCat link.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, The Macmillan Company	1910

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "Billy" "Will" "Bil" Phelps was a book reviewer and gave enthusiastic support to many a new writer. For this he has been sometimes criticized, but not by those who enjoy someone who, as Professor Bakeless said, " has done something for God, a good deal for his country, and a lot for Yale." He spent his summers, playing golf with "Eddie Guest" and preaching in the Methodist Church at Huron City every Sunday. (This area and the buildings have been preserved as a museum in his memory.) He said he was uncertain whether to be a teacher, a preacher, or a journalist, and that he ended by becoming all three.

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