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John Sanborn Phillips
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Born
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1861-07-02
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July 2, 1861
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Died
| February 28, 1949
(1949-02-28)
(aged 87)
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Education
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Occupation
| Publisher
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Spouse
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Emma Delia West
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m.
)
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Children
| 5
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Relatives
| Samuel Huntington
(grandson)
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John Sanborn Phillips
(1861?1949) attended
Knox College
in Illinois, where he worked on the student newspaper and met
S. S. McClure
. After earning an associate's degree, he entered
Harvard College
as a junior, and graduated in 1885, magna cum laude.
[1]
[2]
In 1887 McClure hired him to manage the home office of the
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
(founded in 1884).
The two went on to found the famous
McClure's Magazine
, first published in June 1893, where Phillips was co-editor. In 1900 Phillips became a partner in the publisher McClure, Phillips and Company.
[3]
[4]
In 1906, he left
McClure's
with
Ida Tarbell
, along with
Lincoln Steffens
and
Ray Stannard Baker
to purchase
American Illustrated Magazine
and convert it into
The American Magazine
.
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Personal life
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Phillips was born in
Council Bluffs, Iowa
on July 2, 1861, the son of Edgar E. Phillips (1827-1908) and Mary Lavinia Sanborn (1835-1914).
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Edgar's mother was Sarah Evertson, a member of a prominent Dutch American family from
New York City
. Through his father he was a descendant of
Reverend George Phillips
, founder of
Watertown, Massachusetts
and the progenitor of the New England Phillips family.
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He married Emma Delia West on August 25, 1885, and they had five children.
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[2]
His grandson
Samuel Huntington
(son of Richard Thomas Huntington and Dorothy Sanborn Phillips) was a professor at
Harvard University
and a well-known political scientist.
John Sanborn Phillips died at his home in
Goshen, New York
on February 28, 1949.
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References
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Class of 1885 Harvard College Secretary's Report No. VII Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
. Cambridge: The University Press. 1910. pp. 127?128
. Retrieved
April 24,
2023
– via Internet Archive.
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a
b
c
"John S. Phillips"
.
The Boston Globe
. Goshen, New York (published March 2, 1949). AP. March 1, 1949. p. 3
. Retrieved
April 24,
2023
– via Newspapers.com.
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a
b
Wertheim, Stanley (1997).
A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia
. p. 206.
Greenwood Publishing Group.
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Greg Gross (1997),
The Staff Breakup of McClure's Magazine
, chapter 2.
Archived
July 23, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine
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The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time
, Volume 38, 1953, page 210
Further reading
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- Gorton, Stephanie (2020).
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That That Rewrote America
. Ecco Press.