~ MORE ON KATHY REEVE'S FAMILY ~ ALLEN BURR PHILLIPS ~ 1829 - ?
Husband of Almira T. Taylor
Son of Liscom Phillips and Fideliah Baldwin
Great Grandson of Philip Phillips and Mercy PhillipsWaupaca Co. Wi Bios Forum
Posted by Transcriber on Fri, 03 Nov 2000Surname: Phillips, Baldwin, Taylor, Rand, Putnam
From “Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin counties: Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano” by Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1895
ALLEN B. PHILLIPS, farmer, and one of the old residents of Bear Creek township, Waupaca county, was born December 25, 1829, in Ashfield, Mass. His parents were Liscom and Fidelia (Baldwin) Phillips, the former of whom was a farmer by occupation.
Liscom Phillips reared a family of six children - George H., Allen B., (subject of this sketch), Delia, Lemuel J., Francis S. and Albert L. Allen B. Phillips received a common-school education, and lived on a farm until he was twenty years of age, when he went to Conway, Mass., and remained four years, there engaging in learning the toolmaker’s trade. During this time his parents died, and, returning home, he remained about a year, going then to Worcester, where he remained about eight months, employed in a gun shop. In 1855 Mr. Phillips was united in marriage with Almira T. Taylor, who was born October 14, 1833, in Manchester, Vt., and to their union came two children: Irving, born March 12, 1865, who died May 20, 1888, at the age of twenty-three; and Clara F., born December 14, 1866, who has always remained at home, and on December 25, 1893, was married to Albert E. Rand, a school teacher in Bear Creek. Mrs. Phillips’ parents, Oreb and Polly (Putnam) Taylor, had a family of eleven children, as follows: Lydia, Sophronia, Almira (Mrs. Phillips), Betsy, Selinda, Laura and Elsie. Oreb Taylor was a successful farmer.
After leaving Worcester Mr. Phillips and his wife visited friends at Ashfield, Mass., migrating thence to Oak Creek, Milwaukee Co., Wis., where they had relatives. He went to Oshkosh and engaged in pattern making, and his wife joining him there soon afterward, they remained there about a year, in September, 1857, coming to Bear Creek township, Waupaca county, where he had bought about eighty acres of wild land, in the most primitive condition, where roamed bear and deer, and where the hideous howling of the wolves was not infrequently heard. For ten years they kept a hotel on the stage road, and then moved to the farm, which was now partly improved. The work of clearing was taken up, and the axe and the grup-hoe were his daily companions. Mr. Phillips has dealt somewhat in land, at one time owning 320 acres, but he has sold off until now he has but forty-two acres. Politically he is a strong Republican, and has been honored by his fellow citizens with election to office, having served as town clerk and as town treasurer, and he was the first postmaster appointed at Bear Creek.
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