Merced-Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Phillips, Oscar Ephraim 1875 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

OSCAR EPHRAIM PHILLIPS

   It is the second generation of people who are now maintaining the standard
set by more advanced settlers of the pioneer period in the Golden State, and
none is more deserving than Oscar Ephraim Phillips, who was born at Badger Flat,
Merced County, May 23, 1875, the son of the late William Milton and Sarah Jane
Phillips, mention of whom is made on another page of this history. After
finishing the courses at the Center Point school near Los Banos, O. E. Phillips
became associated with his father, remaining with him until twenty-three years
of age. He was then given forty acres of land by his father, who gave him the
necessary equipment to carry on the project he had undertaken and for more than
twenty-five years he has carried on a dairy industry. As he has succeeded he has
bought sixty-five acres nearby, and finally he purchased eighty acres south of
Los Banos on the plains, and in 1921 added fifty-five acres to his holdings one
mile east of Los Banos. He raises grain on some of his land and on the rest he
maintains a dairy of fifty cows. He is one of the successful ranchers of this
part of the county and takes a live interest in all that pertains to the
advancement of the people's interest.

   On November 1, 1898, Oscar Ephraim Phillips and Miss Phoebe Mills were made
man and wife at Gonzales, Monterey County. Mrs. Phillips was born in that
county, the daughter of John Boardman and Louise (Bickmore) Mills, and she was
reared in the San Miguel Canyon. Her father was a rancher and carpenter and one
of the early settlers of that locality. He died at the age of fifty; Mrs. Mills
lived to be fifty-six. D. O. Mills, pioneer banker in Sacramento, was an uncle
of Mrs. Phillips.  The following children have been born of the union of Mr. and
Mrs. Phillips: Ervin Glenn, Lurine, Irma, Hazel and Melva Illeen. Mr. Phillips
is a Republican and he holds membership in the Los Banos Center of the Merced
County Farm Bureau. Fraternally, he belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Los
Banos.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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