Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Benjamin W. Phillips

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SOURCE:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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Benjamin W. Phillips was born in 1831, in the State of Illinois, and is a son of Mason and Debby
(Kendricks) Phillips, who were Virginians by birth, and early residents of Tennessee, where they
were married. The father was a pilot on the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers for a number of
years, and in 1831 moved to Illinois, but only remained there a short time, when he came to
Arkansas and located on the farm on which Benjamin W. Phillips now resides. He died [p.880] in
1877, and was the father of seven children. Benjamin W. Phillips was educated in Benton County,
and made his parents' house his home until 1853, when he determined to seek his fortune in the
West, and accordingly went to California and mined in that State and also in Oregon. British
America. Idaho. Montana and Utah. After an absence of twenty years he returned home (in 1873),
and has since been engaged in farming, being the owner of 160 acres of fertile and well-improved
land. He was married in 1865 to Miss Eliza Creelman, and by her became the father of nine
children, seven of whom are living: Jack W., Belle. Frank, Annie, Charlie, Debbie and Myrtle. The
mother of these children died in 1884.