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FRANKLIN J. PHILLIPS, grocer, McKeesport, was born in what is now Lincoln township, this county, December 25, 1839, a son of John and Mary (Edmundson) Phillips. His paternal grandfather, John Phillips, and maternal grandfather, William Edmundson, were pioneers of Lincoln township. John Phillips, Sr., had four children: John, Rebecca (Mrs. James Leech), Ezra and Jane (Mrs. Abel Walker). Of these John was a farmer, and lived and died in Lincoln township, in the house in which he was born and reared. He had four children: Eliza J., Franklin J., Adeline (Mrs. Zera McGrew) and William P., of whom the last mentioned was reared on the old homestead. Franklin J. was reared and educated in his native township, and in early life followed farming, later conducting a dairy business for ten years. He located in McKeesport in 1884, and since 1886 has been engaged in the grocery trade. In 1865 he married Deborah A., daughter of Nathan and Phebe C. (Hayden) McGrew, and has four children: Katie M., Mary J., Bertie B. and Nathan F. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Baptist Church and Royal Arcanum; politically he is a prohibitionist.