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John C. Phillips

Importer/Philanthropist

Centurion, 1875–1884

Full Name John Charles Phillips

Born 21 October 1838 in Boston, Massachusetts

Died 1 March 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts

Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Proposed by Horace Gray and William H. Draper

Elected 4 December 1875 at age thirty-seven

Archivist’s Note: Grandfather of John C. Phillips