Biography

Whipple went to school at the East Greenwich Academy (then called The Providence Conference Seminary) and went on to teach in the country schools. Whipple left teaching to build a mill in the western Rhode Island village of Coffin Corner, which he renamed Greene, Rhode Island.

He married his first cousin, Miss Rhoby Alzada Place, (who had been educated at the Latham Seminary). Whipple and Rhoby Phillips had four children: Lillian Delora (1856-1932), Sarah Susan "Susie" (Lovecraft's mother, born 1857), Edwin E. (1864-1918), and Anna Emiline (1866-1941).

Lillian and Sarah attended the Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts. Lillian went on to the State Normal School and became a teacher. In 1873, Whipple Phillips sold off his estate and interests in Greene and moved to Providence where he entered the real estate business. He purchased a large home at 194 Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. (Later the city would change the street number to 454.)

Burial at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Sources

• Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833-1904) on Find A Grave:Memorial #24744742 retrieved 21 October 2018
• Wikidata:Item Q7993752,fr:Wikipedia
• "BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ8T-BMXH : 24 June 2015), Whipple V Phillips, died 28 Mar 1904; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYB-2R6 : 19 August 2017), Whipple Phillips, Providence Ward 6, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; citing p. 253, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 505; FHL microfilm 22,261.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDJ6-FQF : 12 April 2016), Whipple I B Phillips in household of James W Phillips, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; citing family 7, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFFS-V1M : 12 April 2016), Whipple V Phillips, Rhode Island, United States; citing p. 92, family 816, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,970.
• "Rhode Island State Census, 1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5XF-ZXW : 11 March 2018), Whipple V Phillips, Providence Ward 02, Providence, Rhode Island; citing 19, State Archives, Providence; FHL microfilm 953,910.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M97P-HD7 : accessed 21 October 2018), Whipple V Phillips, District 1 Providence city Ward 2, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 13, sheet 14A, family 263, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,506.

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