This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Jenkins, Jones, Norton, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WFC.2ACI/3105.1 Message Board Post: From the “History of Dane County, Wisconsin-1880” there is a biographical sketch under the ‘Town of York’ for John Phillips, farmer, Sec.10; P.O. Columbus; was born in Flintshire, England, fourteen miles from Liverpool, June 27, 1826; son of Thomas and Eleanor (Jenkins) Phillips. Was married in England in 1850, to Jane Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones; soon after his marriage he emigrated to America, arrived at Columbus, Wis., September, 1850; he followed farming in the town of Columbus [Columbia County] till 1855, then sold out and removed to his present location; has nine children living --- Thomas H., Joseph J., Ada A., Ivy A., May H., Edward, Albert, Ruth and George, all at home except three; Thomas H is married and lives at Black River Falls, Wis.; Joseph, married and living in Mower Co, Minn., and May H is the wife of Geo. A Norton, and living in Freeborn Co., Minn. Mr Phillips has been Side Supervisor of the town of York, and was Chair! man six or seven years. Democrat, and has 200 acres of land, worth $40 per acre. There was also a reference to Joseph Phillips under a biographical sketch for his father-in-law in the ‘Town of York’, William Brown. William Brown, farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Deansville; married June 14, 1846, in Lisbon, Waukesha Co, Wis., to Miss Euphrosyne S. Godfrey, who was born in Lancaster, Erie Co, NY. Mr & Mrs Brown had ten children, seven of them living in 1880 --- Valeria O, now Mrs. Joseph Phillips, of Mower Co, Minn …. The webpage below has a short history of York: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=div&did=WI.0347.1638.0052&isize=M

Joe Excellent info I have been searching. Thank you so much!! Aimee, MN joec@inxpress.net wrote: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Jenkins, Jones, Norton, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WFC.2ACI/3105.1 Message Board Post: >From the “History of Dane County, Wisconsin-1880” there is a biographical sketch under the ‘Town of York’ for John Phillips, farmer, Sec.10; P.O. Columbus; was born in Flintshire, England, fourteen miles from Liverpool, June 27, 1826; son of Thomas and Eleanor (Jenkins) Phillips. Was married in England in 1850, to Jane Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones; soon after his marriage he emigrated to America, arrived at Columbus, Wis., September, 1850; he followed farming in the town of Columbus [Columbia County] till 1855, then sold out and removed to his present location; has nine children living --- Thomas H., Joseph J., Ada A., Ivy A., May H., Edward, Albert, Ruth and George, all at home except three; Thomas H is married and lives at Black River Falls, Wis.; Joseph, married and living in Mower Co, Minn., and May H is the wife of Geo. A Norton, and living in Freeborn Co., Minn. Mr Phillips has been Side Supervisor of the town of York, and was Chair! man six or seven years. Democrat, and has 200 acres of land, worth $40 per acre. There was also a reference to Joseph Phillips under a biographical sketch for his father-in-law in the ‘Town of York’, William Brown. William Brown, farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Deansville; married June 14, 1846, in Lisbon, Waukesha Co, Wis., to Miss Euphrosyne S. Godfrey, who was born in Lancaster, Erie Co, NY. Mr & Mrs Brown had ten children, seven of them living in 1880 --- Valeria O, now Mrs. Joseph Phillips, of Mower Co, Minn …. The webpage below has a short history of York: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=div&did=WI.0347.1638.0052&isize=M Aimee Wagner All new natural skin care Visit www.NaturalAimee.com Contact me for free trail. --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business.