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Pike County IL
Pages from
1880 Pike County History
by
Chas. C. Chapman & Co.
Dr. J. G. Phillips was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1826. His parents, Joseph M. and Nancy (Miller) Phillips, were natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, respectively. He received his common-school education in Illinois. In 1855 he graduated in medicine at the Missouri University, and practiced in Iowa nine years; most of the time in Illinois he has been in Brown county. In 1878 he came to Perry, where he has a successful practice. In 1850 he married Mary Ann Thompson, and in 1869 he married a second wife, Minerva A. McClure. He has been a School Director and Town Trustee in Mount Sterling. He served two terms in the Legislature as a representative of Brown county. Politics, Democrat. In 1847 he was in the Mexican war, and discharged in 1848 at Santa Fe. In 1862 he enlisted in the war of the Rebellion; was Captain of 36th Ill., but so on resigned on account of ill health.
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