Bio: Edward Phillips, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville & Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890
Submitted by Gaytha Thompson



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EDWARD PHILLIPS
General Merchant, Natchitoches La

Mr. Phillips is a native of Liverpool, England, born on November 12, 1843, and
came with his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Bailey) Phillips, to the United
States in 1848.  He located with them in Natchitoches in 1849, and received
his education in the schools of that city.  In 1861 he joined Company G, Third
Louisiana Infantry, Confederate States Army, and served until the close of the
war.  He was captured at Vicksburg, and was paroled at Shreveport.  After the
war he began merchandising in this city, and this he has since successfully
continued.  From 1867 to 1887 the firm was know as Levy & Phillips.  Mr.
Phillips is a very successful merchant and enjoys an extensive acquaintance
and patronage within the town and surrounding neighborhood. 

His nuptials were celebrated in 1871 with Miss Joanna Lache, a native of
Vicksburg, Miss., born in 1853.  They have an interesting family of four
children: Robert, Rena May and Violet.  Harold, a son, was drowned in Cane
River in 1884, and our subject came very near losing his life in the same
fatal spot.

Mr. Phillips is a stockholder in the Natchitoches Cottonseed Mill, and is one
of the leading citizens of the city.  He has been a member of the Masonic
fraternity, Phoenix Lodge No. 38, since 1866, and is also a member of the L.
of H.  

The father of Mrs. Phillips, Simon Lache, was born in Prussia about 1820.  He
came to the United States when in his teens and died in New Orleans in 1872.
Her mother was born in Germany in 1836, and died in Memphis Tenn., in 1873.  

Edward Phillips was the eldest of six children, three of whom re now living. 
One brother, Henry, was drowned in Cane River, near where the father lost his
life on July 27, 1866.  Thus tree members of the family lost their lives in
this fatal river.

His father was born in Prussia, and his mother in Liverpool, England, in 1826. 
She now resides in Coushatta, La.