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age of fifty-seven years, and she in 1868, at the age of fifty-two years. He was a faithful member
of the Baptist Church for years, and was, at the date of his death, a deacon of the church.
The subject of this writing is the son of a farmer, and spent his younger years in the
labors of the farm in connection with his attendance in the common district schools, where he
received a very good education.
In 1868, he was married to Miss Amanda Jackson, a native of this county, and the
daughter of Capt. A. T. Jackson, a native of Kentucky. Soon after marriage, he engaged in the dry
goods business, in Kewanna, under the firm named Phillips & Leiter. Six months after marriage,
Mrs. Phillips deceased, at the very early age of twenty-one years. She was a consistent member of
the Baptist Curch, and was universally respected by her many friends.
On October 29, 1871, Mr. Phillips again married, his choice being Mary A. Apt, a native
of Ohio, and daugter of Peter and Leah Apt. By this union they have three children, Leonard C.,
Jay P. and Mabelle.
Mr. Phillips, as before stated, was a farmer for several years. He was also a teacher of
some note in the district schools of the county, and was for some time a clerk in a dry goods house
at Kewanna. He has been very successful in business; conscientious and strictly honest in all his
dealings, kind and affable, he has made many friends.
He is a member of the F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 546, of Kewanna.
In the election of 1882, he was chosen by his party as Auditor of the county, and is now
acting in his official capacity, and has the best wishes of his many friends for a successful career.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 25]
PHILLIPS, L. V. [Rochester, Indiana]
L. V. PHILLIPS TO HEAD STATE TEACHERS ASSN.
Through failure to conform with the rules of the Indiana State Teachers Association,
President-elect Miss Harriott Clara Palmer, of Franklin, was deposed by the executive committee
of the association at a meeting held in Indianapolis Saturday.
Supplanting Miss Palmer to the presidency of the State Teachers Association is L. V.
Phillips, principal of the Vincennes High School. Mr. Phillips was formerly principal of the
Rochester High School, he serving seven terms from 1923 to 1929 inclusive. During his tenure in
the local school system Mr. Phillips took an active interest in various forms of high school
athletics during which time the R.H.S. basketball squad was competing in the State H.S. big ten
schedules with a marked degree of success.
The following story, which appeared in Monday’s issue of the Indianapolis [sic] will be
of interest to local residents: - - - - - [long story] - - - - -.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, April 3, 1934]
L. V. PHILLIPS, FORMER R.H.S. PRINCIPAL, TO BE STATE B.B. CZAR
Indianapolis, Dec.7, (INS)- A board of control of the Indiana High School Athletic
Association today elected L. V. Phillips, of Vincennes, to succeed the late Arthur L. Trester as
association commissioner.
Phillips, a native of Bloomfirld, has served as principal of Vincennes high school since
1929. The former president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, he also has been a member
of the Athletic Assoiation’s board of control and athletic council.
President Morris E. McCarty, of the IHSAA board of control, said that Phillips will serve
for a three-year period beginning Jan. 1st.
Well Known Over State
The new commissioner also has been a principal at Rochester and Linton high schools
and was a teacher in the Kokomo high school. He was principal and coach for six years in Green
county township schools after being graduated from Indiana university. He also holds an AM
degree from Columbia university.