William Franklin Phillips and Eva Mae Stives

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Husband William Franklin Phillips ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1873
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           Died: 1940
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: John W. Phillips (1850-1915) 3 4 5
         Mother: Gertrude Power (1853-1890) 6 7

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       Marriage: 1906 - ? Venango Co, PA 6 7

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Wife Eva Mae Stives ^{6 7}

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           Born: 1882
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Children

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1 F Marian A. Phillips ⁶

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2 M W. F. Phillips, Jr. ⁶

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3 M Howard Stives Phillips

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General Notes: Husband - William Franklin Phillips

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He had excellent educational advantages. He was at work in the oil fields from the age of sixteen years, having begun as a tool dresser, and became a drilling contractor when but twenty, operating a string of tools. He sank several wells on his father's farm. In 1907, attracted by the high wages paid to experienced men, he went out to California, and except for one year which he spent at the old home, was engaged in various of the leading production sections of that state until 1911, his experience as a driller extending into the copper regions of New Mexico as well. Forming a partnership with H. R. Merritt on his return to Pennsylvania, they secured title to sixty acres with leases on an additional tract, and for seven years he gave his attention to the development of this property, he and his partner having thirty-seven producing wells there, whose yield was at least up to the average of Venango County wells. Many old wells had to be drawn and reworked, and new ones brought in, and in the course of the operations Mr. Phillips had many reasons to be grateful for his years of experience, covering every phase of oil production and making him thoroughly conversant with all its possibilities. His management of this property speaks volumes for his efficiency, persistence and constancy in the care of the multitude of minor details without which success could not have been gained. He also owned the old farm at Pinoak, where there was a satisfactory oil production. Mr. Phillips devoted his time principally to business, but he maintained fraternal association with the Odd Fellows and Masons, being a Knight Templar and thirty-second-degree Mason. [HVC 1919, 555]

In 1923 he moved to the farm at Pinoak, devoting all his time and energy to his business there, and selling his partnership interests.

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General Notes: Wife - Eva Mae Stives

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from Spartansburg, Crawford Co, PA

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 613.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 47.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 613, 622.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 48.

5 —, The Duffield Family; A Sketch of William Duffield, of Venango County, PA, and His Descendents (PA: The William Duffield Association, 1905), Pg 39.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 614.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 49.