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unusual facts about William Phillips


William Phillips, Sr.

Governor Thomas Gage rejected his election to the governor's council in 1774.


Catherine Payton Phillips

James's sons, Richard Phillips (1778–1851) and William Phillips (1775–1828) were Fellows of the Royal Society.

Linda Wolfe

Wolfe began her literary career in 1958 as an editorial assistant at Partisan Review alongside editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv.

Mladen Urem

He has collaborated with the famous US authors and editors Deborah Treisman (1971), William Phillips (1907–2002), Robert Bingham (1966–1999) and others, as well as with the esteemed British historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett (1953).


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Porcellian Club

Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak.

Reportedly haunted locations in Pennsylvania

At the Phillips' Rangers Monument in Hesston at the site of Captain William Phillips and his Rangers massacre at the hands of Indians, the ghost of Phillips is seen standing vigil while every July 16 (the anniversary of the massacre), the Indians and Rangers are observed around the grounds.