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Marriage: Children:
  1. Albert Victor Phillips: Birth: 16 Jan 1864 in Coboconk,Upper (Ontario) Canada. Death: 10 Apr 1904 in Coboconk, Ontario, Canada

  2. Jeremiah Gerry Phillips: Birth: 6 Mar 1866 in Coboconk,Upper (Ontario) Canada. Death: 27 Mar 1950 in Coboconk, Ontario, Canada

  3. Joseph Joe Henry Phillips: Birth: 24 Nov 1867 in Coboconk,Bexly Twp.,Victoria Co.,Ontario,Canada. Death: 23 Jul 1937 in Kinmount, Ontario, Canada

  4. Alice Phillips: Birth: 4 Apr 1871 in Coboconk,Bexly Twp.,Victoria Co.,Ontario,Canada. Death: in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  5. Minnie Phillips: Birth: ABT 1876 in Christ Church, Coboconk, Ontario, Ontario. Death: DEAD in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  6. William John Bill Phillips: Birth: 2 Feb 1876 in Bexly Twp.,Victoria Co.,Coboconk,Ontario,Canada. Death: 19 Apr 1965 in Coboconk, Ontario, Canada

  7. George Thomas Phillips: Birth: 8 Sep 1883 in Laxton Twp,Victoria Co.,Ontario,Canada.


Notes
a. Note:   John Read Phillips b. Aug 1837 England d.13 Nov 1907 Coboconk,Ontario,Canada Marriage... Married Margaret Russell b. 1841Co. Middlesex, England d.17 May 1918 from the Influenza Flu in Coboconk Immigration.... John Read Phillips: Immigrated with his family & parents to Canada abt 1840 & sometime later settled in Coboconk, Bexley Twp, Victoria Co. about 13 miles north of Fenelon Falls, Laxton Twp., Victoria Co., Upper (Ontario) Canada. Children... Albert Victor m. Francis Fanny Jane Wellwood; Jeremiah Gerry m. Annie Graham Wellwood; Alice m. William McKenzie; Minnie m. Bearard Bernie Wilson; William John m. Ada Althea Aifretta Routley; George Phillips m. ?. Businesses he owned & operated... He owned & operated “J.R. Phillip's Saw Mill” & “J.R. Phillips Planning Mill”, 2 separate mills. 1st. sawmill in Coboconk. Both mills burnt down at different times & he rebuilt them. They where located on the north side of the Mill Pond. Just north & below the cemetery. The Coboconk Royal Canadian Legion is now built on this property (2006). 1907 after his death the family sold the mills and they became known as “The Gull River Lumber Company”. John Read Phillips also helped his son Joseph Henry Phillips to build his own lumber mill in Kinmount, Ontario. Canada. The first saw mill in Kinmount, located just north of the town, on the Burnt/Irondale River, called "J. H. Phillips Saw Mill", after his death it went to his son Rosslyn Rumney Phillips. The Austin family soon after built their saw mill just south of the dam in Kinmount, on the west side. John Read Phillips had a Side Wheeler or Paddle Wheel boat driven by a large steam engine, which was used to pull the logs-booms up Balsam Lake & then up the Gull River to his mills in Coboconk. A log boom was made up of a lot of logs chained end to end & both ends attached together with a long chain attaching them to the back of the boat towing them. Inside of the boom where hundred’s of logs cut to length & ready for the mill. They would tow them into the mill pond then open the boom at one end & pull the logs that where chained together back out into the river & leaving the saw logs in the pond. Then it would be towed back to Balsam Lake to be refilled with more logs that were cut along the shores of the lake. The men used 14 foot long pipe poles to sort (long wooden pole with a steel point on one end) & separate the Logs & guide them too & onto the Jack Chain which pulled them up into the mill. The boat was sold to a Toronto firm in 1916, and delivered by rail. He helped his son Joseph Henry Phillips to built his mill on the north end of Kinmount on the Burnt/Irondale River which was passed down 3 generations. SOURCE: Ruth J. Dales 2102 Old Fort Dr. Tallahassee Fl. 32301 1986 Compiled by Don Outram 13012 CR 503 Tory Hill Ontario Canada 2007 [email protected]


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