PHILLIPS, A. B.

PHILLIPS, ALLEN

Posted By: Jennifer Gunderson (email)
Date: 3/13/2021 at 16:44:20

A. B. Phillips, M. D., one of the prominent young physicians of Clear Lake, Iowa, was born on a farm in Lincoln township, Cerro Gordo county, this state, March 25, 1877, a member of the Phillips family that settled here in pioneer days and of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume.

Doctor Phillips passed his boyhood days on his father's farm and received his early education at Nora Springs Seminary, where he graduated in 1896. He then entered the State University of Iowa, from which in 1900 he received the degree of B. S. During this time his studies had been selected with the medical profession in view, and he then went to Chicago and pursued his medical studies at the Northwestern University Medical School, where he graduated in 1902. Six months later he opened an office at Clear Lake, where he soon proved his natural ability and acquired skill in the line of work he had chosen, and where he has established a successful practice.

He has membership in the Cerro Gordo County, Austin Flint, Cedar Valley, American Medical and the State Medical Societies, and by constant research and study keeps himself informed in regard to every advancement made in the science and practice of medicine. Politically he is identified with the Republicans and he takes an active interest in local affairs and has served as a school director. Fraternally he maintains membership in the A. F. & A. M., the K. of P. and the B. P. O. E. He and his wife attend worship at the Congregational church.

Mrs. Phillips, formerly Miss Agnes Allen, is a native of Ames, Iowa, and a member of one of the old families of that place. She and the doctor are the parents of two children, Robert A. and Albin B.

Source: History of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. Transcribed by Jennifer Gunderson (Mar 2021)