Anson Green Phelps

Anson Green Phelps ( born March 24, 1781 Simsbury, Connecticut; † November 30, 1853 in New York City ) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

Phelps began his business rise in Hartford. There, he produced a large number of horse saddles, which he then sold in the American South. Inspired by his success in business drew Phelps in 1812 to New York and co-founded the company Elisha Peck Phelps, Peck & Co. They traded in iron, brass and other metals. 1828, she halted trading.

Anson Phelps founded in 1834 and his son William E. Dodge, the mining company Phelps, Dodge and Company. At first she acted with American products to introduce copper, iron, tin and other metals from England to America in exchange. 1881, the company, however, rose even to the mining business and bought mines in Arizona. Today, the Phelps Dodge Corporation is one of the largest mining companies in the world.

1844 a city north of Derby was founded, which was to be called Phelpsville. However, because of the same name with a different city it was finally Ansonia, by his first name, named.

1853 Phelps died at his home in his 73rd year of life. He has been in the family grave at Green - Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City buried.