When Phillips was born about 1829, in Kentucky, United States, her father, William Phillips, was 37 and her mother, Nancy Doyle, was 32.
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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