. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . l have passed away during the presentyear. Colonel Ivers Phillips, now a resident of Boulder,Colorado, was for many years connected with the manufact-uring and other business interests of Fitchburg, as well asthe railroad interests of Worcester county. Both of hisparents were natives of Fitchburg, but about the time of theirmarriage moved to Ashburnham, where on the twenty-eighthday of July, 1805, their son Ivers was born. At the age ofseven years he came with his parents to Fitchburg, remain-ing until 1837, when he removed to Worcester, but retur


. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . l have passed away during the presentyear. Colonel Ivers Phillips, now a resident of Boulder,Colorado, was for many years connected with the manufact-uring and other business interests of Fitchburg, as well asthe railroad interests of Worcester county. Both of hisparents were natives of Fitchburg, but about the time of theirmarriage moved to Ashburnham, where on the twenty-eighthday of July, 1805, their son Ivers was born. At the age ofseven years he came with his parents to Fitchburg, remain-ing until 1837, when he removed to Worcester, but returnedto Fitchburg in 1844. In i860 he once more made Worcester his home, givingup business there in 1873 and going to Colorado. Afterspending the greater part of nine years in travel he built afine residence in Boulder and settled down, probably for theremainder of his life. Mr. Phillips first became interested in the manufacturingbusiness here in 1844, buying two mills at public he operated one year, in company with A. L. Ackley,.


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