Barnet Phillips

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Barnet Phillips
File:Phillips, Barnet.jpg
Born 1827
Died 1905
Residence Savannah, Georgia
Occupation business
literary
journalist
armed services
Society Membership
membership ASL ordinary fellow
left 1869.08.01 last listed
elected_ASL 1866.10.29
societies American Jewish Historical Society

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proposed 1866.09.05

Notes From Elsewhere

One of the founders of the American Jewish Historical Society ... achieved distinction as a scholar, soldier and journalist ... introduced cricket to America ... wrote papers on toxicology ... married Josephine Myers ... entered the mercantile world as a cotton and rice factor ... at age of 43 began his literary career ... joined staff of the New York Times in 1872 [obit in Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society by Isidor Levi]

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External Publications

The melon schooner
Burning the ships
The struggle

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