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SAMUEL PHILLIPS, proprietor of the California Clothing Store, was born near Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 23, 1849. His parents, Barney and Rebecca (Hodlerman) Phillips, were natives of Germany. When about six years of age he was sent to Germany to attend the German schools and was there educated. Nine years thereafter he returned to America, sailing first from Hamburg to Hull, Eng., thence by rail to Liverpool, and from that city on the Isaac Webb to New York. He proceeded at once to California, via the Isthmus, reaching home in the summer of 1862. Shortly after he accepted a clerkship in a mercantile establishment in San Francisco, and continued there about eighteen months, and then traveled for a time, after which he returned to San Francisco and engaged in business for nine years. In 1876 he visited the old country, returning in the spring following, and went to St. Louis in the fall of 1881, and there engaged in the furniture business. He came to Joplin, August 12, 1882, and established his present business. Mr. Phillips was married in St. Louis, Sept. 4, 1881, to Miss Mary, daughter of Amos and Elizabeth (Middleton) Dowdy. Mrs. P. was born in the city of St. Louis, Aug. 18, 1865. Our subject is a member of the Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, A. O. U. W., Benjamins of Israel, and a C. B. He is a man of undoubted business qualifications.