GEORGE W. PHILLIPS

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 505-506
Monongalia

GEORGE W. PHILLIPS, M. D. Since completing his med-
ical education Doctor Phillips has devoted his abilities and
increasing skill to the service of the little community of
Blacksville in Clay District of Monongalia County. He
is a professional man of high standing, and also a citizen
whose interest is in the welfare of the community.

  Doctor Phillips in his home at Blacksville is not far from
his birthplace, which was over the state line in Greene
County, Pennsylvania. He was born at Waynesburg, Sep-
tember 30, 1878, son of Judge Jesse Phillips. The Phillips
family moved from New Jersey to Greene County about
1820. The grandfather of Doctor Phillips was Richard Phil-
lips, who spent his life as a farmer in Greene County and
died in old age. Judge Jesse Phillips was born in Greene
County, and was one of the effective leaders in that county
for many years. He died at the age of sixty-five. His wife
was Deborah Spragg, who was born on a farm in Greene
County, daughter of David Spragg, for whom a village was
named.  David Spragg was a merchant and also post-
master of Spragg. Mrs. Deborah Phillips died in Febru-
ary, 1918, at the age of seventy-seven.

George W. Phillips was educated in the common schools,
attended Waynesburg College, and from there entered Jef-
ferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he was grad-
uated in 1904. For a year he was an interne in St. John's
Hospital in Pittsburgh, and then located at Blacksville to
take up his duties as a general practitioner. He has been
the leading physician of Blacksville for the past fifteen
years. Doctor Phillips is a member of the County, State
and American Medical associations, for four years was a
member of the Board of Education and also served as
mayor of the town. He helped secure the construction of
the M. & W. Railroad. Doctor Phillips owns farming lands
to the aggregate of about two hundred acres, having one
farm in Pennsylvania and one near Blacksville. This is
underlaid with oil and gas, but these resources have not
been developed. The farms are operated by tenants, and
stock raising is the principal industry. Doctor Phillips
has built a very pleasant home in the village of Blacks-
ville. He was a member of the Volunteer Medical Corps
during the war, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason.

On February 17, 1906, he married Mary Kennedy, of
Mount Morris, Pennsylvania. They have a daughter, Nellie,
now a senior in the Blacksville High School. Mrs. Phillips
was president of the local Bed Cross Chapter during the war.


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