Background
Phillips, John Mcfarlane was born on February 15, 1861. Son of James and Anna (Provost) Phillips.
Phillips, John Mcfarlane was born on February 15, 1861. Son of James and Anna (Provost) Phillips.
Graduate Pittsburgh High School, 1878, continued studies under private tutors.
Manager and in 1885 was made manager mine and mill supply department of Lewis, Oliver & Phillips. Associated, 1889, with his uncle, John Phillips, of Lewis, Oliver & Phillips, in organizing the Phillips Mine Supply Company, president, since 1900. director Fourteenth Street Bank (Pittsburgh).
Member and president Board of Game Commissioners of Pennsylvania, 1905-1924. Member national Executive Board Boy Scouts of America. Member Engineers Society Western Pennsylvania, New York Zoological Society, Campfire.
Mason (32°,Kiloton, Jester).
Clubs: Duquesne, South Hills Country. Collaborator (with Doctor William Temple Hornaday): Campfires in the Canadian Rockies, 1906.
Married Harriet T. Duff, February 1906. Children: Anna Jane Shuman, Mary T. Henry, Margaret Chalfant, John M., James M. Began as assistant.