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He was born on August 13, 1834 in Cassadaga, New York, United States, the son of Sawyer and Jane Parker Phillips. When he was nine his mother died.
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He was born on August 13, 1834 in Cassadaga, New York, United States, the son of Sawyer and Jane Parker Phillips. When he was nine his mother died.
A few years after the death of his mother he left home to attend a country school of New York.
He worked on a neighbor's farm to pay for his living.
His early interest in music was encouraged by his employer who bought him a melodeon, for which Phillips paid in labor. He learned to play the instrument and to sing and before he was twenty he had organized a singing school of his own in Allegany, New York. He built up a small trade in music and instruments by taking his melodeon to the house of a prosperous farmer, where he would play and sing to the members of the household.
Later he went into business with D. J. Cook of Fredonia, New York. On a business trip to Ohio, he visited various towns, organized singing schools, and sold his goods. After living in Marion for two years he moved to Cincinnati to join the music firm of William Sumner & Company.
Within the next year or two the firm became Philip Phillips & Company. The "singing pilgrim, " as he was called, used the same advertising technique in the cities as he had in the country. He would place his melodeon at the most conspicuous corner, play and sing for passersby, and sell them his wares. About 1860 Phillips published his first sacred-song collection, Early Blossoms. It was followed some two years later by Musical Leaves, of which several hundred thousand copies were sold.
During the Civil War Phillips held song services in the principal Northern cities, in connection with the Christian Commission, the climax of which was a meeting in Washington, over which Seward presided. In 1866 he published The Singing Pilgrim, or Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated in Song.
The following year he moved to New York City where he became the musical editor of the Methodist Book Concern. He published his New Hymn and Tune Book (1867) and in 1868, as the culmination of a series of song services in England, his American Sacred Songster, of which more than a million copies were sold. Many other works followed, including The Gospel Singer (1874); Song Ministry (1874); Gem Solos (1887); Six Song Services with Connective Readings (1892); and, in collaboration with his son, Philip Phillips, Jr. , Our New Hymnal (1894).
Phillips died in Delaware, Ohio, at the age of sixty.
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He had been converted to the Baptist faith, but after his marriage he joined the Methodist church.
He married Ollie M. Clarke on September 27, 1860.