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Show UNCLE SAM'S AGED PROTOTYPE DEAD )f WindBor, Conn , Jan. 18. Colonel Ellsworth N. Phelps, who bore such a remarkable resemblance to the car icatures of "Fnolo Sam" that he was widely known, died at his home here yesterday He was more than six feet tall and as straight as a ramrod. ram-rod. His resemblauce to the national nation-al prototype was so striking that he blocked traffic In Ponnsvlvania avenue ave-nue when he first visited Washington Washing-ton He was a veteran of the Civil wai and rode with Sheridan in the Shan- i andosh Valley on that memorable 20- ' mile rido to Winchester until his horse collapsed. He was 87 vears old and died in the house where he was born |