Rash's Surname Index
Notes for James Shelley PHIPPS
JAMES S. PHIPPS, for many years a prominent and prosperous farmer of Uwchlan township, but since 1877, a resident of the city of West Chester, is a son of Jonathan and Isabella (Peters) Phipps, and was born February 6, 1823 , on the old Phipps homestead in Uwchlan township, Chester county, Pennsylvania . There he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the common schools, and after
leaving school engaged in farming. For a number of years he taught during the winter season, and at one time was widely known and popular as a teacher.
After some eight or ten years spent in this manner he abandoned teaching and devoted his entire attention to agricultural pursuits until 1877, when he removed to the city of West Chester, where he has since resided, practically retired from active business. He still owns and directs the operations of
two fine farms in Uwchlan township, one consisting of one hundred and ten acres of valuable land and the other containing about one hundred and thirty acres. Both are well improved and in a good state of cultivation. Mr. Phipps is a member of the orthodox Society of Friends, and a republican in his political opinions. He is a man of sound judgment, strict integrity, and great uprightness of character, and has been called on by a large number of his friends to serve in the position of guardian and trustee. He now has in his keeping many trusts of this kind. He was elected justice of the peace in 1866, and remained in office until removing from the township.
"On November 31, 1849, Mr. Phipps was wedded to Hannah James, a daughter of Hon. Jesse James, of West Nantmeal township, this county. To their union was born a family of two children, one son and a daughter: Margaret, who married J. E. Armstrong, now a large oil operator residing at Petrolia, Ontario, Dominion of Canada; and Jesse, who died February, 1872, aged four years. Mrs. Phipps died in April, 1877, in the forty-seventh year of her age.
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