City: Memphis
PHILLIPS, Samuel Henry, wholesale grocer; born Kenosha, Wis., Oct. 18, 1853; Irish descent; son of Samuel William and Sarah (Pilkington) PHILLIPS; father’s occupation, civil engineer; paternal grandfather Richard PHILLIPS; educated in public schools; in early life was grocer clerk for Ford Porter & Co.; married Eleanor Gilbert ALBERS, Sept. 30, 1906; member Tennessee, Country, Chickasaw, Business Men’s Menesha Outing and Memphis Automobile Clubs, and Memphis Zoological Association; Democrat; member of Episcopal church; president Shanks, Phillips & co., director in Gayoso Oil Works, and engaged in farming; former president of Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association, 1910.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
