Phillips, Ernest L.

PHILLIPS, FERGUSON

Posted By: Don Wherry (email)
Date: 2/21/2013 at 08:15:57

PHILLIPS, ERNEST L. - Of the firm of Phillips & Co., hardware merchants. Is the son of A. L. Phillips and was born in Henry county, Illinois, January 8, 1858. When nine years of age he came with his parents to Iowa, locating in Grinnell, where he has been educated. In the fall of 1875 he went to the Davenport Business College, and graduated in the spring of 1876. Then returned to Grinnell where he taught school for one term, and then engaged in his present business. His marriage was in Grinnell, September 3, 1879, to Miss Anna Belle Ferguson. Their family consists of one child, Vena Olio (born July 16, 1880).

Grinnell Township
p. 919, The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880