D. C. PHILLIPS, retired miner and farmer; P. O. Rockville; son of David and Harriet (McKee) Phillips, formerly of Connecticut and New York, who removed to Ohio in 1819, where six children were born; the subject of this sketch came to Platteville in 1844, and engaged in farming; in 1854, he went to California and returned in 1859, with a respectable "pile." Married, in 1862, by L. C. Drake, to Mahala, daughter of Abram and Sarah (Cramer) Travis, who was born in Ohio in 1843; has one daughter - Maggie, 17 years of age, at home teaching music. He was a member of the 33d W. V. I. about two years; the father of Mrs. Phillips (Travis) was in the Black Hawk war, and was the discoverer of the celebrated "Langworthy lead" at Dubuque, and sold it for $4,000 after taking out 4,000 pounds of ore. Mr. Phillips was with Gen. Walker at Nicaragua, and states that at one time they threw overboard in three days 114 bodies of the victims of cholera and fever, from the ravages of which himself and forty Wisconsin boys were entirely exempt, as the legitimate result of their habits of temperance. He is now 47 years of age, a genial, educated gentleman of leisure, and has deprived himself and family of the long-coveted pleasures of a residence in the Golden State, that he might minister to the wants of his parents, who are now making their home with him. Both are totally blind, aged 82 and 83 years.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.