YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL.
1883.
Milton Sargent Phillips, son of Joseph and Deborah J. (Hardy) Phillips, was born in Roxbury, N. H., on February 15, 1853. He entered Drury College at Springfield, Missouri, in 1875, and was graduated in 1880, having in the meantime been ordained there on March 1, 1879.
From the seminary he went to a Presbyterian Church in Holden, Missouri, as acting pastor, and the next year to a Congregational church in Blue Springs in the same State. From that place he returned to Connecticut early in 1886. He supplied for short periods successively the churches in Long Ridge (Stamford), Stony Creek (Branford), and Rocky Hill; and on January 1, 1889, took charge of the Ferry Street Church in New Haven, with which he continued for three years. In November, 1892, he became acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Chaplin, Conn., but after a little more than a year the inroads of consumption obliged him to seek a different climate. He then went to California, and as his health seemed to be improving he ventured to assume the charge of the Congregational Church in Highland, but was able to retain it for only a few months. He died in Highland on September 7, 1896, in his 44th year.
He married on May 22, 1883, Harriet R., daughter of the Rev. Charles Dixon, of Naugatuck, Conn., who survives him with three of their four children.
Source: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased during the Academical Year Ending June, 1897, published by Yale University, 1897; Pgs. 491-192
