Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Phillips, D. D. 1822 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Phillips, D. D. Born in Mason county, Kentucky, May 1, 1822. At the age of five
years his parents moved to Pike county, Missouri, where he was educated. On May
18, 1843, he married Miss Amelia A. Kennedy, and soon after moved to Ralls
county, where he resided until the death of his wife, March 10, 1847. He then
enlisted in Company E, Third Regiment, Missouri Mounted Volunteers. He had been
in the service but a short time when he was detailed to be one of a party of
twenty-eight men to accompany Kit Carson, who was a dispatch carrier, to General
Kearney in California. After accompanying them to Santa Fe, in New Mexico,
Carson obtaining a fresh escort, he and his comrades remained at Santa Fe until
their respective commanders arrived, after which they proceeded to Chihuahua and
Santa Cruz, in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Mr. Phillips remained with this
command until the Fall of 1848, when he got his honorable discharge. Returning
to Ralls county, he spent the Winter, and in the Spring, in company with three
companions, started across the plains with ox-teams, arriving at Hangtown, now
Placerville, September 1, 1849. After mining at different points for seven
years, he came to this county October 16, 1856, and settled on his present
estate, comprising two hundred and twenty-three acres, located on Dry creek,
about eight miles from Healdsburg. He married his present wife, Mrs. Mary C.
McCland, January, 1855. His children by his first wife are George W. and Gabriel
D. By his second wife he ha3 John W., Samuel E., Oscar F., Horace H. and Olliver C.

Additional Comments:
Mendocino Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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