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igio PATHFINDER (3C0XQC nnovns philips, flMxH)., X1L.2). IPiincipal oi tbc State IRormal Scbool Mest Cbcstcr, pcnn5v lvanta EORGE MORRIS PHILIPS, Ph.D.,LL.D., Prindpal .,f tlie Stale N..mial School , West Chester, Pennsylvania, widely known and esteemed as an educator, is descended fmni an did Chester County family. In 1755, Joseph I ' hilips emigrated with his family from Wales to this count r)- and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His great grandson, John Morris Philips, born in Chester County, married Sarah Jones, also a native of the county, being a daughter of Judge Thomas Jones, whose ancestors in 171- had also emigrated here from Wales. George Morris Philips is the son of John Morris and Sarah (Jones) Philips, and was Ixirn in 1851 at Penningtonville (now Atglen), Chester County, Pennsylvania. He is thus descended from the sturdy Welsh stock noted, especially, for its physical and intellectual vigor, strength of character and intense patriotism. Three sons of Joseph Philips served in the colonial army during the Revolutionary war; the second son, John, from w honi Dr. Philips derives his title as a member of the Order of the Sons of the Revolution, was first lieutenant in the Chester County battalion. The father of Dr. Philijis was a man of great influence in the communitv bec-;use of his valuable personal qualities, and his mother was a woman of rare Christian graces and mental endowments, who lived to the advanced age of eighty-three years, honored and beloved by all who knew her and felt the warmtli of her kindlv nature. It has been said that ance ' try renders a good man more illus- trious. While the truth of this may be conceded, the converse is equally capable of demonstration, that a good man may add new lustre to a noble ancestry. The boy, George Morris Philips, received his elementary education in the schools of the neighborhood and prepared for college at the local academy conducted by Professor William E. Buck, to whom Dr. Philiiis often refers with gratitude and
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PATHFINDER igio esteem. At the age of sixteen vears, he was aihnitted tu Lewisburg ' (now Biicknell) Uni ersity and tonk higli rank in all his classes, graduating with honors, in 1871, in the classical course, witli the degree of A. B. Immediately after his graduation, he was offered the professorship of natural sciences in the West Chester State Nor- mal School, then just opening its doors. Ijut was obliged to decline it, as he had already accepted the professorship of mathematics in Alonongahela College, Jefferson, Greene County, Pa. Despite the difticulties incident to the building up of a new colleo-e, which would have disheartened one of less heroic mould, Professor Philips achieved marked success there, the earnest of greater achievements yet to follow. He had intended, eventually, to enter the legal profession, but not being able to shun his manifest destinv, the teaching ])rofession still claims him. The gain to the legal profession would un- doubtedly have been very great, but the events of the last thirty years pro -e conclusi ely that the educational world W( mid ha e suffered a proportionately serious loss. It is interesting and significant to note here that Dr. Philips has been in the thought of the various boards of trustees of the (ist Chester State Normal School from the beginning until now, a period of nearly forty years. Though he was obliged to decline their first offer, the l)i)ard did not lose sight of him. unanimously tendering him in ? Iarch. 1S73. the pro- fessorship of higher mathematics, which was accepted, and the school felt the charm anil impulse of his scholarly and enthusi- astic teachin,g for more than five years. In 1878, to the keen regret of the West Chester people, he resigned to accept the professorship of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy at Bucknell Uni -ersity. Si. months before, he had married Elizabeth Marshall Pyle, the acconiplished young woman who taught instru- mental music and J ' rench in the State Normal Sclnjol and whi , thanks to a kind I ' roxidence, still presides o -er his household with dignity and grace and is a zealous and efficient wurker in musical, literary, temperance and social circles connected with the school, the church and the community. It mav l)e mentioned here, also, with special interest that two children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Philips. Both graduated from the Normal School and afterwards from higher institutions, William Pyle Philips, now a promising young attrirney of New York City, from Ha erford College. Harvard L ' ni ersity and the Harvard Law School, and Sarah Elizal)eth Philips, from V ' assar College, where her talent as a singer soon brought her into prominence. The trustees of the West Chester State Normal School still kept Prof. Philips in mintl, and in 18S1 elected him principal of
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