Edward H. Phelps (1842-1897) was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and died in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was the principal owner of the Phelps Publishing Company, publishers of Springfield Homestead, New England Homestead (of which he was editor), Farm and Home, American Agriculturist, and other periodicals. He married Harriet Goulding in 1865, and for many years he occupied the position of organist in various Springfield churches.

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