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PHYSICK

nois, Wisconsin and Colorado, under General Schofleld, and served on the frontier during the war. He was wounded in battle three times. He refused a nomination for governor of Kansas and an offer of $10,000 a year as a correspondent of the New York Tribune with the Army of the Potomac, and in 1865 rejiresented Salina in the Kansas legislature. He served as attorney of the Cherokee Indians at Washington, D.C., and was a Republican representative from the first Kansas district in the 43d, 44th and 45th con- gresses, 1873-79. He was president of the Kansas Historical society, contributed to periodicals, and is the author of Labor, Land and Law (1886). He died at Fort Gibson, LT., Nov. 30. 1893.

PHILLIPS, William Fowke Ravenel, clima- tologist, was born in Bedford county, Va., July 13, 1863; son of Dinwiddle Brazier and Nannie (AValden) Phillips; grandson of William Fowke Phillips, and a descendant of Colonel William Phillips of the Revolutionary army. He re- ceived his school training at Chatham, Va., and was graduated at Columbian university, M.D., 1890, and was professor of hygiene there, 1891-93, and after 1895; also demonstrator of anatomy. He became medical climatologist of the U.S. weather bureau in 1895, and was also placed in charge of the library of the bureau in 1898. He is the author of articles on medical climatology, and was elected a member of the Philosophical Society of Washington, the National Geographic society, the American Climatological association, and its vice-president, 1901-03, and was editor of Climate and Health (1896-97).

PHOENIX, Jonas Phillips, representative, was born in Morristown, N.J., Jan. 14, 1788; son of Maj. Daniel and Anna Lewis (Phillips) Phoenix, grandson of Alexander and Cornelia Phoenix; and of Jonas and Anna (Lewis) Phillips, and a descendant of Alexander and Abigail (Sewall) Phoenix. Alexander Phoenix emigrated from England to New Amsterdam in 1640, and re- moved to Rhode Island in 1653. Jonas Phillips Phoenix attended the public schools and early engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York city, where he became a prominent merchant. He was married, April 5, 1810, to Mary, daughter of Stephen and Harriet (Suydam) Whitney of New York. He was a member of the board of alder- men, 1838-39; a presidential elector on the Harri- son and Tyler ticket in 1840, and a Whig repre- sentative from the third district in the 38th and 31st congresses, 1843-45 and 1849-51. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New York in 1840, 1843 and 1847; a member of the state assembly in 1848; one of the commissioners of the Croton aqueduct in 1843, and one of the governors of the New York almshouse in 1849. He died in New York city, May 4, 1859.

PHOENIX, Stephen Whitney, antiquarian, was born in New York city. May 35, 1839; son of the Hon. Jonas Phillips and Mary (Wliitney) Phoenix. He was graduated at Columbia, A.B., 1859, A.M., 1863, and LL.B., 1863. He then studied and traveled abroad, and on his return to New York city, devoted himself to antiquarian and genealogical research. The epitaphs on the tombstones in Trinity churchyard. New York cit}% and the records of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths of the Reformed Dutch and Presbyterian churches in New York, were copied at his expense for preservation, and printed in the Neiv Yoi^k Genealogical and Bio- graphical Record. He also collected and pre- served portraits of old New Yorkers, many of which were engraved, as well as nearly 3,000 prints relating to New Amsterdam and old New York, which are owned by Columbia university. He left his herbarium to the American Museum of Natural History in New York; his genealogical works and $15,000 to the New York Historical society, the income to be invested in books on heraldry and genealogy; his pictures, curiosities, and coins to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his library of books, to be known as the Phoenix collection, to Columbia university, with $500,000 for use in the school of mines. He is the author of: The Descendants of John Phoenix (1867); The Whitney Family of Connecticut (3 vols., 1878); TJie Family of Alexander Phoenix (MS.). He died in New York city, Nov. 3, 1881.

PHYSICK, Philip Syng, surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 7, 1769; son of Edmund and Abigail (Syng) Physick. His father was receiver-general and keeper of the great seal of Pennsylvania, and became agent of the Penn estates after the Revolutionary war. Philip Syng Physick was graduated from the Uni\ ersity of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1785, A.M., 1788, and studied medicine under Dr. Adam Kuhn in Philadelphia, and under Dr. John Hunter in London. He was appointed house-surgeon of St. George's hospital, Jan. 1, 1790, and received his license to practice from the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1791. He was graduated from the L^niversity of Edinburgh, M.D., 1793, and returning to the Uni- ted States, September, 1793, established himself in Philadelphia. He married Elizabeth Emlen. He was attending physician at the hospital at Bush hill during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, and was elected one of the surgeons of the Pennsylvania hospital in 1794, in recognition of his services. He continued his labors during the second breaking out of the yellow fever epidemic in 1798. He lectured on surgery in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1800; was professor of surgery in the univer- sity, 1805-19; professor of anatomy, 1819-31, and