Sturbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Fiskdale)
1864 - An Aged Man

The Boston Transcript publishes a sketch of Deacon John Philips of Sturbridge, Mass., who is now in his one hundred and fourth year. This venerable man was born in Massachusetts when George II was King of Great Britain. He was drafted in 1776, and served in the early part of the American Revolution, and has a distinct recollection of the battle of Bunker Hill, which took place when he was fifteen years old. He has lived all his life on one farm, eaten at one table, and during a space of ninety years has not had a severe sickness.

Semi-Weekly Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
January 16, 1864

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