CLASS OF 1869

Sidney Atwood Phillips died July 11 at his home in Framingham, Mass., after an illness of three months. He was the son of Sidney and Abbie (Atwood) Phillips, and was born in Boston, March 14, 1847. The family removed to Framingham in his boyhood and he was there prepared for college in the local academy and high school. In College he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. After graduation he taught for a time at Framingham and at Dover, N. H., and read law at the latter place. Upon his admission to the bar in 1873 he began practice at South Framingham, and continued there through life, except for the years 1874-8, when he was clerk of the district court for Southern Middlesex. Mr. Phillips was clerk and counsel for the South Framingham Manufacturing Company, out of which has been developed the present Dennison Manufacturing Company. He was instrumental in incorporating the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank, for which he served as counsel and as member of the board of investment for twenty-nine years, and was active in forming the Framingham Water Company, which first gave that town a street water system, and which he served as counsel and member of the board of directors during the life of the company, until the property was taken over by the town. He served for many years on the school committee and as trustee of the town library and town counsel. He was a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and was prominently connected with the First Parish church (Unitarian). In 1875 Mr. Phillips was married to Mary C. Wallingford of Dover, N. H., who died in 1893. He leaves a son, Julian W. Phillips '00, of Framingham, and a daughter, Miss Mary Phillips.

Secretary, Charles P. Chase, Hanover, N. H.