"History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.'s, Indiana"
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884


JESSE T. PHIPPS was born in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana,
May 1, 1823, the fourth of nine children of LEWIS and MARGARET (RECTOR)
PHIPPS, the father a native of NORTH CAROLINA born July 19, 1783, the mother
a native of GRAYSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, born February 17, 1793.  In the winter
of 1822 the parents located near Bedford where the father became prominent
and well know, and owned at his death November 22, 1858, a farm of 146
acres.  The father was a consistent member of the Baptist Church.  Our
subject's youth was passed without event, and at the age of twenty-six he
married (March 29, 1849), NANCY M. DOTHITT, who bore him six children, of
whom four are living:  HENRY C., SARAH M., OLIVER M., PARTHENA A.  Henry is
in Kansas;  the others are with their parents.  Mr. Phipps has followed
farming principally through life, though for four years he was a merchant in
Daviess County, Indiana.  He owns 156 acres of land, is a Republican, takes
an earnest interest in all public enterprises, and is universally respected.


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