BIOGRAPHY: Albert F. Philips; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake co., Utah

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History of Utah
The Storied Domain
A Documentary History of Utah's Eventual Career
by J. Cecil Alter
Vol. 2, published 1932 (expired copyright)
The American Historical Society, Inc.

ALBERT F. PHILIPS, president of the Utah State Historical Society, has been in
newspaper work all his life. He is still in the ranks of active reporters, and
it is doubtful if there is another man in the country still active who is
older than Mr. Philips.

He was born at Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, October 16, 1850, and is of
Welsh ancestry. His parents were Theophilus C. and Frances Julia Philips. His
father became one of the outstanding newspaper men of Indiana, serving for
many years as editor of the Kokomo Tribune, and was also a leader in the
Republican party of the state.

Albert F. Philips spent his boyhood in Indiana, attended common schools in
that state and acquired most of his education in a country printing office.
From boyhood until 1884 he was associated with his father and brothers in the
ownership of the Kokomo Tribune. During the past forty-five years he has been
connected with many prominent metropolitan newspapers in the Middle and far
West. He was one of the owners of the Illinois State Journal at Springfield,
Illinois, was with the Gazette Journal at Hastings, Nebraska, and from there
came to Salt Lake City as manager of the Salt Lake Times. He was also night
editor of the Salt Lake Herald, later was managing editor of the Kansas City
Times, and on returning to Salt Lake was telegraph editor, city editor and
then managing editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, and finally Washington
correspondent of the Tribune. During several years on the Pacific Coast he
acted as financial editor of the Los Angeles Express and as editor of the
Financial Record of Los Angeles. Since returning to Salt Lake he has been with
the Herald and is now state capitol reporter for the Salt Lake Telegram.

Mr. Philips has always been a Republican in his political affiliations and
activities. When he was twenty-two years of age he became postmaster of
Kokomo, Indiana, and served from 1872 to 1876, and then for three years was a
special agent for the Post Office Department. Mr. Philips is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity, is a past district deputy exalted ruler of the B. P.
0. Elks, having held that office while in Nebraska, is a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America and the First Congregational Church of Salt Lake.

He was married in the Christian Church at Kokomo, Indiana, October 20, 1870,
to Miss Irene Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Bailey. They became
the parents of four daughters: Grace, widow of Thomas Patton; Jessie P., widow
of Lemert C. Van Voorhis; Frances Julia, wife of W. B. Mundy; and Margaret,
deceased, who was the wife of Avery M. Woodward.