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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

CHARLES K. PHILLIPPS.

    Charles K. Phillipps has for almost thirty years been a representative of
the Colorado bar and has practiced in Denver since 1897, or for a period of
twenty-one years. His marked ability places him in the front ranks among the
representatives of the legal profession in the capital city. He was born in
London, England, November 18, 1859, and is a son of William and Celia (Rawe)
Phillipps, both of whom were natives of England, where they spent their entire
lives. The father was a graduate pharmacist and conducted drug stores in London,
where he was prominently known as a representative of commercial interests. He
died in 1886, having for a number of years survived his wife, who was educated
and married in London and there passed away in 1875. They had a family of four
children: Henry M., now a resident of Pueblo, Colorado; Major W. A. Phillipps,
an officer in the English army; Charles K., of this review; and Frederick, who
is still in London.

    In the public schools of his native city Charles K. Phillipps acquired his
education and after mastering the common branches of learning entered the law
office oŁ a well known firm of London barristers, who directed his reading.
Before receiving his papers permitting him to practice, however, he came to
America, making his way to Greensburg, Kansas, where he resumed the study of
law, acquainting himself with the principles of American jurisprudence. He was
afterward admitted to practice and took up the active work of the profession in
Greensburg, where he remained until 1889, when he removed to Colorado, settling
at Redcliff. There he resided for four years and in the meantime was elected
county and deputy district attorney, filling those two positions while engaged
in practice at Redcliff. In 1893 he removed to Leadville, Colorado, where he
continued in successful practice for four years, when, seeking a still broader
field of labor, he came to Denver, where he opened an office and is now
established as one of the leading lawyers of the capital city. He is devotedly
attached to his profession, is systematic and methodical in habit, sober and
discreet in judgment, diligent in research and conscientious in the discharge of
every duty. In addition to his law practice he is serving as the secretary of
the Federal Oil & Mining Company, an Oklahoma corporation, and is a director of
the Federal Rubber Tire Company of Denver.

    In 1880 Mr. Phillipps was married to Miss Ada Hoadley, of London, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hoadley and a relative of Ex-Governor Hoadley of Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillipps have become parents of three children: Mrs. Constance
Dane, who was born in London in 1881 and who is a graduate of the Wolcott School
of Denver and the Loretto Academy of this city; Mrs. Evelyn P. Spencer, who was
born in Torquay, England, in 1883, and is the widow of Willard Spencer, of
Denver; and Mrs. Rollin Hall, who was born at Redcliff, Colorado, in 1892, and
is a graduate of the Wolcott School of Denver. There are now six grandchildren.
Mrs. Dane has three children: Evelyn, Charles P. and Robert Dane. Mrs. Spencer
has a daughter, Charlotte, who was born in Denver and is now attending the
Loretto Academy; and Mrs. Hall has two children, Jean and Frank, both born in
Denver.

    Politically Mr. Phillipps has always been a republican since becoming a
naturalized American citizen. Fraternally he is a Master Mason and along
professional lines he has membership with the Denver County and City Bar
Association and the Colorado State Bar Association. A thorough student of law,
he has ever commanded the respect and enjoyed the friendship of leading members
of the bar. He has never sought office, his ambition being in the line of his
profession, and in his chosen life work he has won for himself a most creditable
name and place.


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Extracted from:

HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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