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From the NY Times of April 13, 1921: The marriage of Miss Catherine Davis, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. George S. Davis of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Phelps Barnum, son of Mr. & Mrs. William M. Barnum of 61 Park Ave. took place last Saturday at Saint John's Church, Cedar Rapids.

From the NY Times of January 19, 1976: Phelps Barnum, 84, Architect, is Dead. Greenwich, Conn. Jan. 18---- Phelps Barnum, an architect whose designs included the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos in the Agora, or marketplace, of ancient Athens, died yesterday at this home on Chapman Lane. He was 84 years old. Mr. Barnum, in partnership with the late W. Stuart Thompson, was the architect also of such buildings as the Bradley Airport Terminal in Windsor Locks, the Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute near Rensselaer, NY and the chapel of the Westminster School in Simsbury. Born in Scarsdale, NY, Mr. Barnum was a graduate of Westminster, of Yale in 1913 and of the Columbia School of Architecture in 1916. He received the French Croix de Guerre as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service at Verdun in World War I. In World War II he directed for Pan American World Airways the design and construction of 43 airports in central and South America forming a link to the campaign in North Africa. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. James O. Curtis of Blackburg, VA and a son, William Milo Barnum.

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