CALVIN B. PHILLIPS, farmer, Secs. 12 and 13; P. O. Blue River; owns 240 acres of land. He is a son of Mathia and Hannah Buckman, his father a native of Maine and his mother of Connecticut. Mr. Phillips was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in July, 1821; he went to Ohio with his parents in 1837; they located at Dorset, Ashtabula Co., where his father engaged in blacksmithing, and Calvin B. learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed until 1854, when he came to this State and located in the town of Orion, Richland Co., where he bought a farm of 120 acres and lived there until 1876, when he exchanged it for the farm he now owns. He was married, in 1849, to Miss Mary D. Johnson, a native of Ohio, by whom he had nine children, eight of whom are living. Mr. Phillips served under Gen. Scott during the Mexican war.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.