Edwin Phillips.
The Phillips family have long been seated in Virginia. Joseph Phillips, of Hampton, was the father of Joseph Phillips, the last named Joseph Phillips, a soldier of the Confederate States Army, colonel commanding the 3d Texas Cavalry, killed in service at Donaldsville, Louisiana. Col. Joseph Phillips married Mary T. Morrow, who survives him, now living at Hampton, and their son Edwin was born in Hamiiton, in 1860.
Edwin Phillips attended school at Morrison, Warwick county, and at Hampton. He began business in Hampton as clerk for D. G. Morrow, with whom he remained for six years, then clerked for S. C. Bickford, of Ham|iton. fifteen months. Removing to Newport News, he began business for himself, in 1886, as merchant, in which he still continues. He is also post-master at Newport News.
Source: Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians, by Dr. Robert Alonzo Brock and Prof. Virgil Anson Lewis, Volume II, H.H. Hardesty, Publisher, 1888; Pg. 693
