Robertson County TN Archives Biographies.....Phillips, Middleton M. 1873 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com November 13, 2005, 9:14 pm Author: Will T. Hale MIDDLETON M. PHILLIPS. Painstaking, capable and eminently efficient. Middleton M. Phillips, superintendent of the schools of Springfield, is performing the duties devolving upon him in this capacity so wisely, conscientiously, and so thoroughly as to win the approval of all concerned. A son of Marion Phillips, he was born January 12, 1873, in Alpharetta, Georgia, the descendant of an old and respected family. His paternal grandfather, Allen Phillips, was born, reared and educated in Georgia. Enlisting for service during the war between the states, he died, about 1863, from disease contracted in the army. Marion Phillips was born and brought up in Milton county, Georgia, his birth occurring in 1850. Left fatherless when a young boy, he had but little opportunity for acquiring an education, his advantages being exceedingly limited on account of the Civil war. While yet young he turned his attention to the tilling of the soil, and is now one of the successful agriculturists of Chamblee, Georgia. He is a man of sterling worth, a Democrat in polities, and a member of the Primitive Baptist church. He married Frances Tucker, who was born in 1848, in Milton county, Georgia, a daughter of Willis Tucker, a life-long farmer in Georgia. To them three children were born, as follows: Middleton M., William Madison, a farmer in Arlington, Georgia; and Frances Elizabeth, wife of John W. Spence, who is engaged in farming at Chamblee, Georgia. As a boy and youth, Middleton M. Phillips attended the public schools of Milton county, Georgia, where, from 1893 utnil 1897, he taught in the country schools. Going then to Dahlonega, Georgia, he further advanced his studies at the Agricultural College, preparing himself for entry to the Peabody College, in Nashville, Tennessee, from which he was graduated with the class of 1898. In 1901 Mr. Phillips received the degree of A. B. at the University of Nashville, and immediately began his career as an educator, serving one year as principal of schools at Pontotoc, Mississippi, and the following year being similarly employed at Blue Ridge, Georgia. Coming from there to Tennessee, Mr. Phillips had charge of the Hall-Moody Institute at Martin for a year, after which he was principal of the schools at Itta Bena, Mississippi, for five consecutive years. Accepting then the responsible office of superintendent of the schools at Springfield, Tennessee, Mr. Phillips has filled the position ably and satisfactorily, and is now serving his fourth term. He has under his supervision ten white teachers and three colored ones, all of whom are faithfully assisting him in his efforts to make the Springfield schools the best in the county. Mr. Phillips is also interested in agriculture, having a good farm of two hundred acres in the vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Phillips married, June 28, 1904, Kate J. McCulley, a daughter of Dr. J. M. McCulley, a physician, who was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Oakland, Tennessee, until his death, while yet in manhood's prime. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have one child, James M. Phillips, born in 1907. Politically Mr. Phillips is a Democrat, and fraternally he belongs to Greenwood Lodge No. 135, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, in Greenwood, Mississippi. Religiously he is a communicant of the Baptist church, and Mrs. Phillips is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/robertson/bios/phillips293nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/tnfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb