Medical Class of 1841.
Butler Hubbard Phillips, son of Russell and Polly (Merrill) Phillips, was born 17 August, 1815, at Loudon, N. H. He received an academic education at Gilmanton (N. H.) Academy. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Nahum Wight (M.D., Bowdoin, 1832), and attended courses of lectures at Dartmouth and the Medical School of Maine, where he received his degree in 1841. He practiced his profession for five years at Hillsborough Centre, N. H., and then attended a course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He settled, in 1847, in Pembroke, N. H., where he lived until his death. In 1874 he moved his office to the village of Suncook and formed a partnership with his son-inlaw, Dr. John R. Kimball (M.D., Bowdoin, 1869). He died 25 May, 1893, at Suncook, N. H., of pneumonia, complicated by a heart trouble of long standing.
"For half a century he faithfully and cheerfully performed the duties, enjoyed the honors, and endured the hardships of a 'country doctor.' His practice grew to be extensive and in it he was eminently successful. He became a Christian in his maturer years, and until his death was a close student of the Bible. His strong constitution and vigorous health kept him ambitious and active beyond the three-score and ten limit. In youth or old age he was never known to grumble at a call, be it never so untimely, and his last one found him, as ever, 'ready.'"
Dr. Phillips married, 6 November, 1848, Huldah Peabody Woodbridge, at Tunbridge, Vt., who died September 20, 1887. Their only child, excepting a son that died in infancy, is Mrs. Clara Augusta Kimball, widow of Dr. John R. Kimball.
Source: Obituary Record Of The Graduates Of Bowdoin College And The Medical School Of Maine, for the Decade Ending 1 June 1899, by Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, Pgs. 210-211
