Isaac Phillips and Almira Hoagland

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Husband Isaac Phillips ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Feb 1828 - Union Co, PA 1
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         Father: Samuel Phillips (1805-1888) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Susanna Winey (Abt 1808-1884) 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 17 Feb 1857 - Hickory Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1

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Wife Almira Hoagland ^{6 7}

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            AKA: Elmira Hoagland 2
           Born: 15 Oct 1832 - Keel Ridge, Hickory Twp, Mercer Co, PA 6
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         Father: John Hoagland (1792-1872) 6 8
         Mother: Catherine Hull (1799-1881) 6 8

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Children

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1 M Burton R. Phillips ¹

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           Born: 23 Dec 1859 - Buchanan Co, IA 1
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2 M Wilson Hull Phillips ^{2 7}

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           Born: 25 Apr 1861 - Iowa 2
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General Notes: Husband - Isaac Phillips

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He was born in Union County, PA, and when eight years old came with his parents to Hickory Township, Mercer County, where he grew to manhood. Joining the gold seekers of 1849, he started for California, going across the country with teams as far as Iowa, where he spent the winter. Continuing his overland journey in the spring, he arrived in California at the end of three months, and was for a time engaged in mining, afterwards being employed in lumbering and in truck gardening. In 1855 he returned to Mercer County, coming by way of Panama, the railroad then extending a part of the way across the isthmus. He subsequently resided on the homestead until after his marriage, when he took his bride to Iowa, locating in Buchanan County, where he had previously purchased land. This land, which was raw prairie, was about fifteen miles southeast of Independence. He erected frame buildings, began the improvement of a farm, and lived there until 1864. Selling out in that year, he returned to East Lackawannock Township, Mercer County, and on Yankee Ridge bought a farm which he thereafter occupied.

He was eight years old when the family removed from Northampton to Mercer County. When he was about seventeen years old he accompanied a party of young men to California, in search of gold. They started in 1849, overland, finding the pres­ent city of Omaha, Nebraska, but an Indian trading post, its main building being a log blacksmith shop. He remained in California for eight years, and when he returned to the East it was over the pres­ent route of the great Panama Canal. While he did not make a fortune, he brought back enough money to enable him to buy a good farm, and after his mar­riage, he invested in land in Buchanan County, Iowa. He remained there for six years, and then sold his land and returned to Pennsylvania, purchasing a farm in Mercer County, two and three-fourths miles west of Mercer, at a point called Yankee Ridge.

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General Notes: Wife - Almira Hoagland

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She was born in 1833. [HMC 1909, 888]

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 887.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 691.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 748.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 757, 887.

5 Editor, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 382.

6 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 895.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 888.

8 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 889.