Name John Phillips Died 1949 | Education Knox College | |
John Sanborn Phillips (1861–1949) attended Knox College in Illinois, where he worked on the student newspaper and met S. S. McClure. In 1887 McClure hired him to manage the home office of the McClure Newspaper Syndicate (founded in 1884).
The two went on to found the famous McClure's Magazine, first published in June 1893, where Phillips was co-editor. In 1900 Phillips became a partner in McClure, Phillips and Company.
In 1906, he left McClure's with Ida Tarbell, along with Lincoln Steffens and Ray Stannard Baker to purchase American Illustrated Magazine and convert it into The American Magazine.
Personal life
Phillips was the son of Edgar L. Phillips (1827-1908) and Mary Lavinia Sandborn (1835-1914). Edgar's mother was Sarah Evertson, a member of a prominent Dutch American family from New York City.
His grandson Samuel Huntington (son of Richard Thomas Huntington and Dorothy Sanborn Phillips) was a professor at Harvard and a well-known political scientist.