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 PHILLIPS

PHILLIPS

was admitted to the bar in 1859, but devoted himself to the study of numismatics, archteology and philology, becoming recognized as an au- thority in these branches, winning two gold medals in Europe. In 1868 he was appointed U.S. commissioner. He became treasurer of the Numismatic and Antiquarian society of Philadel- phia in 1802. and its .secretary in 1868; a curator of the American Philosopiiical society in 1880. a secretary in 1884, and its librarian from 1885 ; treasurer of the American Folk-Lore society, and a member of many societies at home and abroad. His writings on the paper currency of the American colonies, and on American Continen- tal money have been quoted in legal tender cases by the U.S. supreme court. He was vice- consul for Belgium at Philadelphia, 1892-95. He translated : *' Poems from tiie Spanish and Ger- man " (1878): "Faust'" from the German of Chamisso (1881), and four volumes from the Spanish, Hungarian and German (1884—87 ). He is the author of : History of American Colonial Paper Currency (1865) ; History of American Continental Paper Money (1866); Pleasures of Numismatic Science (1867), and many valuable papers on philology, archceology, numismatics and folk-lore. See Memoir by Albert H. Smyth (1896). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 6, 1895. PHILLIPS, John, philanthropist, was born in Andover, Mass., Dec. 27, 1719; son of the Rev, Samuel and Hannah (AVhite) Phillips ; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Emerson) Phillips, and of Capt. John White, Haverliill, Mass., and a descendant of the Rev. George Phillips of Norfolk county, England, who immigrated to Salem, Mass., in the ship Arbella with Winthrop and Saltonstall in 1630, and settled in Watertown, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1735, A.M., 1738 ; taught school at Andover, Mass., Exeter, N.H., and elsewhere, and afterward conducted a private Latin school in Exeter. He fitted for the ministry and was called to the church in Exeter, but decided instead to engage in mercantile pursuits, in which he accumulated a large fortune. He was a justice of the peace, and a member of the New Hampsliire council for several years ; a justice of the supreme court at odd times ; founded and endowed the Pliillips professorship of divinity in Dartmouth college in 1782, and was a trustee of Dartmouth, 1773-93, He founded Pliillips academy at Andover, Mass., with his brother Samuel, in April, 1778, giving to it $31,000 besides a third interest in his estate, and in 1871 founded Pliillips academy at Exeter, N.H., endowing it with .$134,000, He was trustee of Phillips at Andover, 1778-95, and president of the board, 1790-95. He contributed liberally to the College of New Jersey, and received the degree LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1777. He was

married first to Sarah, daugliter of the Rev. Mr. Emery, and widow of Nathaniel Gilman, and secondly to Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. E. Dennet of Portsmouth, N.H., and widow of Dr. Hale. He died in Exeter, N.H., April 21, 1795.

PHILLIPS, Morris, journalist, was born in London, England. May 9, 1834 ; son of Philip and Rosetta Phillips. He came to America, attended school in Cleveland, Ohio, until 1853, and finished his education in New York city, where he entered the law office of Brown, Hall and Vanderpoel. Returning to Cleveland he engaged in mercantile business, but soon after resumed the study of law in Buffalo. In 1854 he accepted the position of private secretary to George P. Morris, editor of the Home Journal, New York city. Upon ]Mr. Morris's death in 1864 he became co-editor with N. P. Willis, and in 1866 sole proprietor of that periodical. He was married, July 5. 1865, to Elizabeth Rode of New York, who died in 1877. He traveled extensively in both hemispiieres, and is the author of : Abroad and At Home (1893), and numerous articles in leading periodical pub- lications.

PHILLIPS, Samuel, philanthropist,was born in North Andover, Mass., Feb. 7, 1750: son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Barnard) Phillips, and grandson of the Rev. Samuel and Hannah (White) Phillips, and of Theodore Barnard. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1771, A.M., 1774; was a member of the Provincial congress at Watertown, Mass., in 1775, and of the state constitutional convention of 1779 ; a member of the Massachusetts senate. 1780-1800, and presi- dent of that body, 1783-1800 ; judge of the court of common pleas, 1781-98; a commissioner of the state in Shays's insurrection, and lieutenant- governor of Massachusetts, 1801-02. He pre- vailed upon his father to divert the property

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which would legally fall to him to the found- ing of Phillips academy at Andover, which he planned and organized. He also gave it lands, procured endowments from his relatives and left $4000 to the town of Andover, to be added to the fund for maintaining instruction in divinity.