Phineas, now bound to a wheelchair in Wolverine: Origins #12, has been contracted by the resurrected villain Silas "Cyber" Burr to subject his new body to the Adamantium-Epidermal Bonding Process.
Described as a bearded rustic tinkerer from Yellow Breeches Creek, Pennsylvania, he claimed to have invented a telephone using a teacup as a transmitter as early as 1867, but had been too poor to patent it then.