William Sheldon Phillips

GEDCOM Note

William Phillips was born in 1893, probably in the house of his grandfather Elias, in Unionville, MO. His parents left Nebraska in 1892, but spent some time in Unionville before relocating to Bagley, Guthrie Co. IA. in 1894/95.

In his youth, William was variously located at his uncle John Peterman’s in Bagley, his grandparents’ in MO., and his step-father’s in IA.

In 1914 he was in Marysville, Butte Co. CA., with his brother Maurice (who remained in California).

In 1917 he joined his step-father and mother in Fort Scott, KS, where he attended college.

In 1927 he married Helen Golden, in Fond Du Lac, WI. At this time he was a salesman for Long Bell Lumber.

In 1933 the Phillips family moved to Wilmette IL, where William took a sales job with Marathon Electric.

In 1937, on a business trip to Indianapolis, he contracted pneumonia and died.