Phelps, Timothy G – Phillips, Henry M
Phelps, Timothy G
congressman, was born in New York. He removed to California and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-seventh congress.
Phelps, William Franklin
educator, author, was born Feb. 15, 1822, in Auburn, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and at Auburn academy, and the State Normal school of Albany. He has been president of the State Normal schools in New Jersey, Minnesota, and Wisconsin for nearly quarter of a century, and for four years was superintendent a In of public schools of Winona, Minn. 1875-76 he was president of the National Educational association, and in 1876 he was president of the first international congress of educators. He has been secretary of the Chambers of Commerce at St. Paul and Duluth for nearly five years, and for six years was secretary of the board of trade of Winona. He organized the movement in behalf of the Sault Ste.
Marie canal enlargement, a deep waterway from the great lakes to the sea, in 1877; was temporary chairman and permanent secretary of the convention held at Sault Ste. Marie, which inaugurated that movement, and was on the special committee sent to Washington to secure the largest appropriation ever made up to that time for the canal enlargement.
Phelps, William Lyon
educator, author, was born in 1865 in Connecticut.
He is an instructor at Yale university, and the author of The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement.
Phelps, William W
journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 1, 1826, in Oakland county, Mich.
In 1852 and 1853 he held the office of commissioner for his native county, performing the duties of judge at chambers. In 1854 he was appointed register of the United States land office at Red Wing, in Minnesota. In 1857 he was elected a representative from Minnesota to the thirty-fifth congress. In 1860 he assumed the editorship of the Red Wing Sentinel.
Phelps, William Walter
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1839, in New York city. He was elected from New York a representative to the forty-third congress, and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1880. He was appointed United States minister to Austria in 1881, and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Phelps, William Wines
journalist, state legislator, poet, was born Feb. 17, 1792, in Hanover, N. J. He removed to Missouri, and established the first morning paper at Independence, Mo., in 1832. He was in the Utah legislature in 1850-57, speaker of the house for several terms, and a justice of the peace. He wrote some of the most popular hymns in the Mormon hymn-book. He died March 7, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Phifer, Charles Lincoln
journalist, poet, was born July 16, 1860, in Fayette county, Ill. He is a successful journalist of California, Mo., and the author of several pamphlets of verse; and a volume of poems entitled Annals of the Earth.
Philbrick, Edward Southwick
sanitarian, author, was born in 1827 in Massachusetts. He was a sanitarian who published American Sanitary Engineering.
Philbrick, Edward White
educator, lawyer, was born April 4, 1861, in Jefferson, Maine. He received his education in the public schools of Maine, Kent's Hill seminary, and the university of Michigan. He has been superintendent of schools in Somerville, Maine, and is now an able lawyer of Boston, Mass.
Philbrick, John Dudley
educator, author, was born May 27, 1818, in Deerfield, N. H. He was a prominent educator of Boston who published nearly fifty valuable public school reports, and City School Systems in the United States.
He died Feb. 2, 1886, in Danvers, Mass.
Philbrook, H. B
lawyer, author. He is a successful lawyer of New York city; has lectured extensively throughout the United States, and is the author of Electricity in Nature; Marriage; Astronomy; and various other works.
Philes, George Philip
bibliographer, was born April 15, 1828, in Ithaca, N. Y. He has contributed to literary journals under the pen-name of Paulus Silentiarius; edited The Philobiblion; and assisted in preparing the Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima, compiled by Henry Harrisse (1866). He has also issued The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon.
Philips, George Morris
educator, author, was born Oct. 28, 1851, in Atglen, Pa. Since 1881 he has been principal of the West Chester State Normal school, and was offered the presidency of Bucknell university in 1888, and in 1890 was tendered the superintendency of public instruction of Pennsylvania by Governor Beaver. He is the author of valuable published papers on Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, Civil Government; and Geography of Pennsylvania.
Philips, John Finis
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 31, 1834, in Boone county, Mo. He served the government as colonel of a regiment of cavalry throughout the civil war, a part of the time was brigade-commander, and was promoted to brigadier-general.
In 1874 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-fourth congress, and was elected to the forty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy. He is now United States district judge at Kansas City, Mo.
Philips, Samuel
clergyman, educator, author, was born June 14, 1823, near Hagerstown, Md. He is a German reformed clergyman, professor in Muhlenberg college, Allentown, Pa., from 1866, and the author of Gethsemane and the Cross; The Christian Home; The Voice of Blood; and The Communion of Saints.
Phillips, a. S
educator, journalist, was born Jan. 8, 1858, in Barnesville, Ohio.
He received his education in the State Normal school of Ohio, and the Kansas seminary. For ten years he was engaged in educational work, and is now editor and owner of The Sentinel of Junction City, Kan.
Phillips, Albert Merritt
civil engineer, genealogist, was born Oct. 9, 1843, in Charlton, Mass. In 1885 he published a history of the Phillips family. He is a prominent surveyor and conveyancer of Auburn, Mass., where he has held many public offices of trust.
Phillips, Arthur Clinton
journalist, lawyer, was born Sept. 16, 1859, in Phillips, Maine. During 1877-81 he was deputy United States consul at Fort Erie, Canada. During 1881-88 he was editor of the Sioux Falls Daily Press, Daily Argus- Leader, Daily Tribune and Daily Leader, and in 1892 was editor and proprietor of the Sioux Falls Daily Gazette, S. D. He is now one of the leading lawyers of the northwest, and is also very prominent in various fraternal orders.
Phillips, Barnet
journalist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a journalist of New York city, on the staff of The Times from 1872, and the author of The Struggle, a novel; and Burning Their Ships.
Phillips, David
journalist, politician, was born Feb. 4, 1872, in Lockport, Ill. He learned the printer's trade; was proof-reader and telegraph editor on the Duluth Tribune, and is now the editor and owner of The Tribune of Mazeppa, Minn.
He is also prominent in the political affairs of his county and state.
Phillips, Dudley B
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1860, in Clayton, Ohio. He is a prominent lawyer of Manchester, Ohio, of which city he served as mayor for six years, and for four years was a state senator from the seventh district of Ohio.
Phillips, Franklin F
A. M., educator, scientist, poet, was born Dec. 21, 1852, in Searsmont, Maine. He graduated from Nichols' Latin school of Lewiston, Maine, in 1873; and from Bates' college with high honors in 1877.
After leaving college he was engaged in educational work for six years, five years as principal of the Rockland High school. In 1880 he was commissioned state assayer of Maine, and served in that capacity for three years. Since 1883 he has been engaged in a very successful business which allows him to gratify his taste for scientific investigation. He is by nature a poet; has written an amount of spirited and graceful poetry, some of which has been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Phillips, George
clergyman, author, was born in 1593 in England. He was a puritan clergyman, minister at Watertown, Mass., from 1630 till his death; and published a treatise on Infant Baptism. He died July 1, 1644, in Watertown, Mass.
Phillips, George Searle
lecturer, author, was born in 1818 in England.
He was a writer and lecturer of Yorkshire, England, who, after some years of literary work in the United States, became, in 1873, an inmate of an insane asylum in New Jersey. He was the author of Chapters in the History of a Life; Life of Ebenezer Elliott; Memoirs of Wordsworth; The Gypsies of the Dane's Dyke; and Chicago and Her Churches. He died in 1889.
Phillips, Henry
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 6, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the author of History of American Colonial Paper Currency; History of American Continental Paper Money; Pleasures of Numismatic Science; Poems from the Spanish and German; and Faust, from the German of Chamisso.
Phillips, Henry M
congressman, was born June 30, 1811, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fifth congress.
He died Aug. 3, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.