PHILLIPS, WILLIAM ADDISON, a Representative from Kansas; born in Paisley, Scotland, January 14,
1824; attended the common schools of Paisley; immigrated to the United States
in 1838 with his parents, who settled in Randolph County, Ill.; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; employed as a newspaper correspondent 1845-1862; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Lawrence, Kans.;
first justice of the supreme court under the Leavenworth constitution; founded
the city of Salina, Kans., in 1858; during the Civil War raised some of the
first troops in Kansas in 1861; was afterward commissioned colonel and served
as commander of the Cherokee Indian Regiment; prosecuting attorney of Cherokee
County in 1865; served in the State house of representatives in 1865; attorney
for the Cherokee Indians at Washington, D.C.; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3,
1879); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; died at Fort Gibson,
Muskogee County, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), November 30, 1893; interment
in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kans.
