Biography of William B Phillips, Fulton Co, AR

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        Date: 26 Sep 1998
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Dr. William B. Phillips is a leading physician and surgeon of Fulton
County, Ark., and possesses those sterling qualities which are characteristic
of people of Scotch descent, as well as of those who claim Ohio as the State of
their birth. He was born in Morgan County. July 24, 1836, and there received
good educational advantages, which he did not fail to improve. He removed with
his parents from Ohio to Missouri in 1859, and having formed the desire to
pursue the study of medicine with a view to making it a profession, he entered
the St. Louis Medical College (then called Pope's College), where he acquired
an excellent knowledge of that calling. When the matterings of war resounded
through the land he entered the service as hospital steward, but afterward
became hospital surgeon, and acted in this capacity until the close of the war.
After residing in Missouri until 1876 he came to Izard County, Ark., and in
1882 to where he now lives, where his efforts to alleviate the sufferings of
the sick have been attended with most pleasing results. His name has become
well known throughout the length and breadth of the county as an able
practitioner, and his success fully justifies the large and lucrative patronage
he has always received. In 1858 he was married to Miss Louisa Valaivies, who
was born in Belmont County. Ohio, in 1839, but her death occurred the following
year. Miss Elizabeth M. Hamilton became his second wife in 1864. She was born
in Pulaski County, Mo., in 1842, and she and the Doctor have become the parents
of the following children: William S., born August 3, 1865; Livie L., born
January 24, 1867; Hugh H., born April 7, 1868; Viola M., born May 5, 1879;
Ernest A., born [p.297] December 23, 1871; Ansel B., born December 21, 1873;
Arthur L., born February 10, 1876; Alexander B., born July 17, 1878; Anna P.,
born May 16, 1880, and Myrtle L., born January 29, 1883. Dr. Phillips resides
on a good farm of 200 acres. He is a Republican in politics, and east his first
vote for Stephen A. Douglas, for the Presidency. He is a member of Vidette
Lodge No. 94, of the I. O. O. F., at Vina postoffice, and is Deputy Grand
Master of his district, and secretary of his lodge. He is a consistent member
of the General Baptist Church. He was the eldest of five children, two now
living, of Zadock and Phœbe (Brown) Phillips, who were born in Athens County,
Ohio, in 1813 and 1818, respectively. The father is yet living, and is engaged
in farming in Douglas County, Mo., to which county he moved in 1859. His wife
died in this county in March, 1889. The grandfather was born in North Carolina,
and the great grandfather was of Scotland nativity.