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CHARLES PHELLIS, farmer and stock-dealer, P.O. Rosedale. Among the many leading and enterprising citizens of Madison County, we take pleasure in representing in this work the subject of this sketch. He was born September 18, 1814, in Butler County, Ohio; his parents were Thomas and Margaret Phellis. When six years old, his father died, and when nine his mother also died. Shortly after the death of his father, he went to live with a farmer and friend, Mr. Asa Phillips, with whom he removed to Hamilton County, and located near Cincinnati. When ten years old, with Mr. Phillips he came to Goshen Township, Champaign County, where they remained four years, when they came to Pike Township, Madison County, where he remained with Mr. Phillips until he was twenty-two years of age. On November 20, 1836, he married Miss Abigail Fullington, daughter of George and Rebecca Fullingotn; she, after enjoying for nearly a quarter of a century a life of peace and tranquillity [sic] with her devoted husband, departed this life November 20, 1860. In the spring of 1837, Mr. Phellis bought of the Fullington heirs 300 acres of land, and by his industry, economy and perseverance, kept adding to his first purchase until at the present time he is the owner of 3,000 acres of land in Madison and Union Counties, the grater portion of which, however, lies in Madison County. In 1853, with Messrs. Jonathan Farrar, of Madison County, and B. B. Browning, of Clark County, as agents for the company in which they were stockholders, went to England and imported a fine lot of both Short-Horn cattle and long wool sheep; prior to and since that time, Mr. Phellis has been quite extensively engaged in stock-raising; he has served as Clerk and Trustee of Pike Township, also as Justice of the Peace several years; and for sixteen years served as County Commissioner. It seems that those township and county offices were but stepping stones to others, to which is attached a greater responsibility, as will be shown by his subsequent official career. In 1855 and 1856, he served as a member of the Ohio Legislature; in 1870 and 1871, he served as a member of the State Board of Equalization, and in 1873 he served as a delegate in teh Convention held to revise and amend the Ohio State Constitution, at Columbus, and subsequently at Cincinnati, to which city the Convention had adjourned. In the fall of 1872, he served as a Presidential Elector, at the time of Gen. Grant's re-election, having been elected from the Eighth Congressional District to represent that district in that convention.
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