Marriage and Family
On February 18, 1897 Phillips married Jane Gibson, daughter of the bank president John Gibson, in Creston. They had one son, John Gibson Phillips. Laster they adopted two daughters, orphaned sisters whom they named Mary Francis and Sara Jane Phillips.
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