GEORGE W. PHILLIPS
Was born in Livingston county, N. Y., July 17, 1829. He came with his father to Armada, Michigan, in 1831, who settled upon a farm. The son was raised a farmer. He was a charter member of the county agricultural society, many times its president, and almost continuously an officer. For eleven years he was a member of the state board of agriculture; an officer of the state agricultural society twenty-two years, and its president in 1880 and 1881. He is a Republican in politics.
Source: Early History of Michigan: With Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators, published pursuant to Act 59, 1887, Thorp & Godfrey, State Printers & Binders, 1888; Pg. 523
