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Samuel Field Phillips

Samuel Field Phillips grew up in Chapel Hill, where his family moved in 1826, practiced law there from 1845 and taught in the university law school from 1854 to 1859. He represented Orange in the House of Commons before moving to Raleigh in 1867 and later became U.S. solicitor general.

Source: NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field

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1824–1903 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Three little children of long ago, 1901.

Pace, Fannie Phillips · 1901

A thirty two page account written in 1901 by Fannie Phillips Pace under the title 'Three little children of long ago', part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1759. A note records that the original was in private hands in 1950. Topics include the Phillips family of Chapel Hill, including James, Charles and Samuel Phillips and Cornelia Phillips Spencer, and on children's social life in the town.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Phillips, Samuel (Samuel Field), 1824-1903.

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David Matthew Thompson papers, 1863-1938

Thompson, David Matthew, 1844-1925 · 1863

Papers of David Matthew Thompson (1844-1925) covering 1863 to 1938, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3957-z. Topics range from Confederate army life and soldiers' correspondence at one end and early football at the University of North Carolina and Trinity College at the other, with the 'North Carolina University magazine', Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Samuel F. Phillips and university president Edward Kidder Graham named.

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John H. Wheeler (1806-1882) Diaries and Papers

Wheeler, John H. · 1854

Diaries and papers of John Hill Wheeler of Hertford County, historian, legislator, state treasurer from 1843 to 1845 and minister to Nicaragua from 1854 to 1857. The diaries, a broken run from 1854 to 1882, follow his social and political life in Washington, D.C. University commencements at Chapel Hill and his work on North Carolina history also come up. State Archives of North Carolina, MfP.51.

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Phillips Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

R. W. Foister, Chapel Hill, N.C

Phillips Hall, the university's engineering laboratories, on an undated postcard published by R. W. Foister of Chapel Hill. The caption explains the name: four generations of the Phillips family taught at the University of North Carolina, among them James, Charles and Samuel Field Phillips.

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  1. Samuel F. Phillips opens a law practice in Chapel Hill Phillips, who had grown up in Chapel Hill after his family moved there in 1826, studied law under President David L. Swain and in the new university law school, then began practising in Chapel Hill when he came of age in 1845. People: David L. SwainSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
  2. A boys' preparatory school meets in Samuel Phillips's law office Samuel Phillips's small stuccoed law office on East Franklin Street reportedly housed a preparatory school for boys in 1847. Later in the century William Horn Battle taught law classes in the same building. People: William Horn BattleSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 36
  3. Zebulon Vance studies law at Chapel Hill Vance entered the University of North Carolina early in 1851 and spent the rest of the year at Chapel Hill studying law under Judge William H. Battle and Samuel F. Phillips. He obtained his law licence in December 1851 and set up an office at Asheville early in 1852. People: William Horn Battle, Samuel Field PhillipsSearch the index · NCpedia: Vance, Zebulon Baird (Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History)
  4. Samuel F. Phillips teaches in the university law school From 1854 to 1859 Phillips taught in the university law school at Chapel Hill. People: William Horn BattleSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
  5. Samuel F. Phillips represents Orange County in the House of Commons A Whig, Phillips was elected to the House of Commons in 1856 and 1858 and again in 1864 and 1865, representing Orange, and was chosen speaker in 1865. He moved to Raleigh in 1867.Search the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
  6. Samuel F. Phillips closes his law school and shares the office with Judge Battle Phillips, who had taught law in his Franklin Street office since 1854, closed the school, went back to practice, and shared the building with Judge William Horn Battle. People: William Horn BattleSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 107
  7. Samuel F. Phillips sells his East Franklin Street house to Henry J. Hogan Samuel Phillips sold his East Franklin Street house and lot to Henry J. Hogan, who moved to Tennessee right away and left the place to his father, William J. Hogan. The sale sent Phillips's mother and his sister Cornelia Phillips Spencer to live in Charles Phillips's house.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 123

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