THE REAL PIONEERS OF COLORADO, By Maria Davies McGrath, Volume I, published by The Denver Museum, 1934;
Pgs. 376-377
JOHN F. PHILLIPS (1860)
John F. Phillips was born in Mercy [sic] Oneida County, New York, March 26, 1834, and most of his early life was spent on a farm. In May 1855 he moved West to Michigan and a year later to Chicago. [On about] April 30, 1860, taking the gold fever, he started for Pikes Peak and arrived in Denver June 26 following. He passed up to Nevada[ville?] district, Gilpin County, and engaged in mining. He recruited Co. L. for the 3rd Regiment Colorado Cavalry and commanded the same in the Indians wars of that epoch. In 1887 he was elected under sheriff of Clear Creek County and in 1889 was elected sheriff.
He was married to Miss Carrie E. Grant December 22, 1858.
Mr. Phillip [sic] died in Denver in 1899. Mrs. Carrie Grant Phillips was born in Cameron, Strucker [Steuben?] County, New York in October 1835 and was married to John Freeman Phillips in Chicago in 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips moved to Colorado in 1860, settling in Central City. Mrs. Phillips died of pneumonia in Denver July 1919.
