Orange County NcArchives Biographies.....Phillips, William Battle 
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Source: Who's Who in America
Author: John W. Leonard

Phillips, William Battle
mining eng'r, metallurgist;
b. Chapel Hill, NC, July 4, 1857;
s. Charles and Laura Caroline (Battle) P.;
grad. Univ. of NC, 1877, Ph.D., 1883;
post-grad. work Univ. of NC and Sch. of Mines, Freiberg;
m. Fayetteville, NC, Oct. 8, 1879, Minerva Ruffin McNeill.
Asst. editor Engineering and Mining Jour., New York, 1893-4;
chemist Tenn Coal & Iron Ry. Co., Birmingham, Ala., 1894-7;
editor Am. Manufacturer and Iron World, Pittsburgh, 1897-8;
now dir. Mineral Survey of Texas, Mem. Am. Inst. Mining Eng'rs, N. of Eng. 
Inst. Mining Eng'rs, Am. Chem. Soc., Internat.
Assn. for Testing Materials, Am. 
Electrochem. Soc., etc.
Extensive contb'r to eng'ring jours.
Translator: Wedding's Basic Bessemer Process, 1891.
Author: Iron Making in Ala., 1896-8 (Ala. Geol. Survey);
Texas Petroleum, 1901 (Univ. of Tex. Mineral Survey).
Editor Economic Series Publ. Univ. of Tex. Mineral Survey.
Address: 1932 SAn Antonio St., Austin, Tex.

Additional Comments:
Source:
Who's Who in America
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States.
Volume 3
1903-1905
Established, 1899, by Albert Nelson Marquis
Edited by John W. Leonard
Chicago
A.N. Marquis & Company
Publishers
1903

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