P-R Goodspeed Biographies
Joseph B. Phillips received a common school education when young, and was business manager for the “Rough and Ready Iron Works Company” in Stewart County until the war commenced. He went into the Confederate service, and afterward joined the Second Kentucky Cavalry and served until 1863, when his health failed him, and he was compelled to return home; after he regained his health he engaged in the mercantile business at Johnsonville, Tenn., and remained there until 1868, when he sold…