Benjamin Franklin Phillips, Jr.

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Benjamin F. Phillips, Bristol, was born in Bristol, February 22, 1857. He is a son of Benjamin F. Phillips, a son of Jonathan Phillips. Benjamin F. Phillips, father of the subject, was born in Bristol, January 9, 1818. He married Louisa Gooding, September 21, 1840, born August 19, 1820. They had three sons and two daughters. Mr. Phillips lived on the farm now owned by his son, Benjamin F., for about seventy years, but died on Baptist Hill in 1892. He was a deacon in the Baptist church. Elnathan G. Phillips, son of Benjamin F., was born November 6, 1841, educated in Canandaigua Academy, and graduated from the classical course of Madison University in 1872, and from the theological course of the same university in 1875. He married Ella V. Howes of Hamilton, Madison county, and accompanied by his wife went to Assam, India, as a missionary for the Baptist church, where he remained ten years. He returned home and at the end of eighteen months returned to India, where he remained until the fall of 1891, when he again returned home, and has since been engaged in translating the Bible into the Garo language, to be used with the people he labored among. He will return to India in 1893. The subject of our sketch, Benjamin Phillips, jr., was reared on the farm he owns, educated in the common schools and Colgate Academy. October 9, 1876, he married Carrie Ogden of Richmond, daughter of Nelson Ogden. They have had four children: Milton J., Elnathan G., Walter G., and Rolland O., who died in infancy. Mr. Phillips owns 160 acres of land in Bristol and eighty acres in Richmond, and follows general farming. He is a Democrat. He and family are Baptist, but attend the M. E. church.

Referenced from:
History of Ontario County
compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich
edited by George S. Conover
Published 1893

Benjamin married Carrie Ogden on 9 Oct 1876 in Richmond, Ontario County, New York. Carrie was born in 1856; died in 1929; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elnathan married Edith Gertrude Gottwols on 18 Oct 1905 in Washington, District of Columbia. Edith was born on 25 Jan 1882; died on 13 Sep 1980 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Drowned in Canandaigua Lake

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Drowned in Canandaigua Lake