1868
Horace Phillips, son of Jonathan Dickinson and Luciana (Greene) Phillips, and a descendant in the fourth generation of Rev. Jonathan Dickinson (Yale I706), President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), was born in Dayton, O., on April 9, 1847.
After graduation he built the Dayton & Southeastern Railroad, and had charge of it from 1876 to about 1886, residing at Dayton. After a year or move abroad, in 1889, he undertook the placing of all telephone wires in Chicago underground, but on account of ill health gave up the work and moved to Seattle, Wash., and for eleven years was engaged in engineering on the coast.
He died at his home on May 7, 1904, at the age of 57 years. He had been suffering for two years from nervous prostration.
He married, at Dayton, on January 7, 1876, Nannie E., daughter of Horace and Sarah Louise (Belville) Pease, who survives him with two sons and three daughters, one son having died.
Source: Obituary Record Of Graduates Of Yale University, Deceased from June, 1900, to June 1910, By Yale University, 1910; Pg. 356
