Background
Phillips, Richard Harvey was born on February 17, 1866 in Boone Company, Missouri, United States. Son of Hiram Cave and Frances (Pemberton) Phillips.
Phillips, Richard Harvey was born on February 17, 1866 in Boone Company, Missouri, United States. Son of Hiram Cave and Frances (Pemberton) Phillips.
Educated Boone Company public schools. T.E., University of Missouri, 1885, Civil Engineer, 1890.
Has been engaged in design and construction of water works, sewer systems, bridges and viaducts and steam and interurban rys., since 1885. Chief civil engineer and secretary International Jury of Awards, Transportation Department, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers. Clubs: Saint Louis, Engineers’, Railway.
Married Nellie Catherine Shults, March 10, 1897.