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Born 1834, Marion county
From Past and present of Wyandot County, Ohio; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement; (1913), The history of Wyandot county, Ohio, containing a history of the county: its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc.; (1884)
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, blacksmith, was born in Salt Rock Township, Marion County, Ohio, June 18, 1834; son of Jacob and Comfort (Martin) Phillips, natives of Massachusetts and Ohio respectively. His father came to Ohio in an early day, and was a shoemaker by trade. He was married in 1830. and was the father of ten children, six still living — William and Edna (by his first wife), Samuel, David, John and Jacob (by his second wife). He died in Michigan when our subject was but four years of age. His wife departed this life about 1870, aged sixty years. Samuel Phillips attended the very ordinary schools of Michigan, giving up entirely his studies at the age of eighteen, coming to Marseilles and beginning his trade as an apprentice, serving three years with James R. Eaton at 1() cents per day. At the end of three years he had accumulated $16. In 1854, he purchased a half interest in his employer's shop, where he has since pounded the anvil, building up an extensive business. This partnership existed twenty-one years, at the expiration of which time Mr. Eaton retired, Mr. Phillips continuing the business at the present time as sole proprietor. His marriage lo Miss Mary A. Ellis, daughter of Richard and Mary P. (Stover) Ellis, occurred in October, 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have reared ten children, seven living— John, Eva (wife of J. L. Hastings), James, Charles, Jennie, Frank and Anna. The deceased are Mary, Harlan and Stover. Mr. Phillips owns his shop and lot; also his house and lot. His wife's mother resides with him, in the seventy-fourth year of her age, in feeble health. He was in the "hundred-day service," Company G, One Hundred and Forty-fourth Ohio National Guards, but sickness debarred him from active duty. He is a member of the G. A. R., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a stanch Republican. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
As printed in The history of Wyandot county, Ohio, containing a history of the county: its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc.; (1884). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS.
Samuel Phillips, who in 1909 retired from business life following many years of active identification with the blacksmith's trade in Marseilles, was born in Marion county, Ohio, June 18, 1834. He is a son of Jacob Phillips, a native of Massachusetts and a shoemaker by trade, who at one db, Google period settled in Marion coxmty, whence he went to Michigan. He was twice married and by his first wife had two children, William and Edna. After her death he wedded Miss Comfort Martin, a native of Ohio, and to their union were born the following children: Samuel, of this review; and David, John and Jacob. The father passed away in 1838 and the mother, who was born in Ohio in 1810, died in 1870.
Samuel Phillips acquired his education in the public schools of Michigan and he pursued his studies until he was eighteen years of age, when he returned to Ohio, settling in Marseilles, where he worked as an apprentice to the blacksmith's trade, receiving for his services ten cents a day for three years and managing to save sixteen dollars out of his wages. In 1854 he purchased a half interest in the shop conducted by his employer, James R. Eaton, with whom he continued in partnership for twenty-one years, gaining a reputation during that time for expert work and. honorable business dealings. Eventually he purchased Mr. Eaton's share of the business and continued to conduct the enterprise alone, building up during that time an extensive and lucrative trade and accumulating a fortune sufficient to enable him to lay aside the cares of active business life. Since 1909 he has been living retired in his comfortable home in Marseilles and is enjoying the leisure and rest which has rewarded many years of earnest, persistent and well directed labor.
Mr. Phillips married, in Upper Sandusky, in 1857, Miss Mary A. Ellis, a daughter of Bichard and Mary P. (Slover) Ellis. The father went to California in 1849 and spent some time in the gold fields of that state, later returning to Ohio, where he followed farming. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips became the parents of ten children. John was a prominent real-estate dealer in New York city, where he also engaged as an importer of drygoods. He died in 1912, at his father's home in Marseilles, Ohio. Eva O. married J. L. Hastings, a farmer in Marion county, and they became the parents of seven children, Maud, Augusta, Spear, Fay, Carrie, Frank and Eloise. James E. is a merchant in Marion, Ohio. He married Carrie Fulton, and they became the parents of two children, Isabella and James Fulton, who died in infancy. Charles N. is cashier of the Marion National Bank at Marion. Jennie died when she was fourteen years of age. Frank is d by Google a member of the firm of Uhler & Phillips, drygoods merchants at Marion, Ohio. He married Miss Alta Craig and has one son, Robert. Anna became the wife of L. C. Wogan, a real-estate dealer in Marion. The other children bom to Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, Mary, Harlan and Slover, died in infancy. Mrs. Phillips passed away on October 6, 1905, and was buried in the cemetery at Marion, Ohio. She was highly esteemed by all who knew her and her demise occasioned not only deep sorrow to her family but a wide circle of devoted friends. She was charitable and kindly and a good wife and mother, being an example of what a true woman should be. Mr. Phillips was a resident of Ohio at the time of the Civil war and he enlisted for one hundred days' service as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but on account of sickness was debarred from active service. He is a member of the Methodist church and active in religious work, having served for thirty-eight years as secretary of the Methodist Sunday school. Politically he is a republican, believing firmly in the policies set forth in the principles of the party, and he is always a loyal supporter of its candidates. Locally he is interested in the betterment of the community where he has resided for over a half century, and for a mmiber of years rendered the township able service as a member of the coimcil and as a member of the school board. He is a man of many sterling traits of character, reliable ip business and progressive in citizenship and during the course of a long, active and honorable life has gained the confidence, good-will and esteem of all who have been in any way associated with him.
As printed in Past and present of Wyandot County, Ohio; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement; (1913). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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