Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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M R. F. F. PHILLIPS was horn in Hancock County, Ky., September 8, 1868. He received his early school advantages in the public schools of that State and later in the public schools of Owensboro, Ky. He began teaching in his fourteenth year in the county of Attala of this State. Later he attended school at Harpersville College, Harpersville, Miss., and afterwards continued teaching in 5 Attala County until 1885. He then gave four years in attending school at University of Virginia, University of Michigan and University of Valparaiso, Ind. After this he returned to Mississippi and was principal of the schools at Pickens for five years. Next he went to Hattiesburg where he was Superintendent of City Schools for five years. In 1902 he resigned this work and organized The Citizens Bank of Hattiesburg and has since been connected in an official capacity with this institution and identified with many of the interests of this prosperous city of the South. 28

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Z. Wardlaw M R. Z. WARDLAW, the subject of this sketch, was horn in Warren County, December 22 , 1844 He descended from an old and well known Scotch family. His early education was limited to the common schools, having been cut short by the opening of the war. With the enthusiasm of youth he espoused the cause of the Confederacy, entering as a private in Company B, Twenty-second Mississippi Regiment and serving faithfully until the end. After the war he attended a Business College in New Orleans, La., from which he was graduated in 1866. He then engaged in business in Memphis, Tenn. In 1871 he was mar- ried to Miss Laura A. Cook, a native of Mississippi. In 1882 he, with his wife and three children, moved to Utica, Miss., where he has always served faithfully in his church. In all of these years he has been very much interested in Mississippi Col- lege and all Baptist enterprises, always extending his hearty support. He has served as a trustee for over twenty-five years. 3 °