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Lillie (Langdon) Phillips |
Lillie (Langdon) Phillips was born in April 1867 at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, IN, the daughter of Judge Byron William and Elizabeth (Ingram) Langdon.
Lillie was an only child in the home of a prominent judge, and thus presumably received an excellent education reflecting her family's standing in the community.
In about 1895, when Lillie was age 28, she wed E. Alfred Phillips (1863- ? ), a 31-year-old native of New York, and the son of Jane Phillips. They had two children, Jane Phillips and Laura Phillips, and raised a nephew, Harry Phillips, born in Nebraska in 1890.
Circa 1898, the Phillipses resided in Columbia City, IN. By 1900, they had moved into Chicago's South Side, where Alfred obtained employment as a teacher of engineering. The 1900 census shows the family making its residence on 33rd Street, and with Alfred's widowed mother living under their roof.
As a descendant of Revolutionary War veteran Benjamin Langdon, Lillie joined the prestigious Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She is listed in the DAR's 1898 national Directory, compiled by Hattie Nourse Brockett and Georgia Stockton Hatcher. Her heritage is spelled out in the DAR's 1897 Lineage Book, as follows:
| MRS. LILLIE LANGDON PHILLIPS. |
| Daughter of Byron William Langdon and Elizabeth Ingram, his wife. |
| Granddaughter of William Lacey Langdon and Jane Ann Duff, his wife. |
| Gr.-granddaughter of James Langdon and Joana Badgeley, his wife. |
| Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Benjamin Langdon and Tamer Barnes, his wife. |
| Benjamin Langdon, when seventeen, enlisted in the army, and in 1781 was a private in the Second Regiment, New York Line, commanded by Philip Van Cortland. |
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