EDWIN PHILLIPS.
The Phillips family have long been seated in Virginia. Joseph Phillips,
of Hampton, was the father of Joseph Phillips, the last named Joseph
Phillips, a soldier of the Confederate States Army, colonel commanding
the 3d Texas Cavalry, killed in service at Donaldsville, Louisiana. Col.
Joseph Phillips married Mary T. Morrow, who survives him, now living
at Hampton, and their son Edwin was born in Hampton, in 1860.
Edwin Phillips attended school at Morrison, Warwick county, and at
Hampton. He began business in Hampton as clerk for D. G. Morrow,
with whom he remained for six years, then clerked for S. C. Bickford, of
Hampton, fifteen months. Removing to Newport News, he began business
for himself, in 1886, as merchant, in which he still continues. He
is also post-master at Newport News.
