John Charles Phillips

John Charles Phillips (November 5, 1876 in Boston - November 14, 1938 near Exeter in southern New Hampshire) was an American hunter, zoologist, ornithologist and environmentalist. He publisher over two hundred books and articles, covering subjects as varied as animal breeding, sport hunting, ornithology, international wildlife conservation, faunal surveys and systematic reviews, and Mendelian genetics.

His father was businessman John Charles Phillips, Jr. (1838-1885), who married Anna Tucker in London, England on October 23, 1874. Phillips was the great-grandson of John Phillips (1770-1823), the first mayor of Boston, and the grand-nephew of abolitionist Wendell Phillips (1811-1884).

Phillips prepared for college at Milton Academy and graduated for the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1899. He continued his education while he attended Harvard Medical School, which he gradated from in 1904 for a Doctor of Medicine. After graduating he began his two-year post as a physician at the Boston City Hospital, but never practiced medicine professionally.

Phillips married Eleanor Hyde on January 11, 1908, and had four children, John Charles, Madelyn Eleanor, and Arthur.

During the First World War, Phillips joined the Second Harvard Surgical Corp and was assigned to General Hospital No. 2 of the British Expeditionary Force in 1915. After his service, he returned home. When the United States was drawn into World War I, he joined the Medical Corps of the US forces as first lieutenant. In 1918 he was promoted to Major. He was part of three important battles in France and part of the army that led to the occupation of Germany. In July 1919, after twenty-six months at war, he returned to the United States.

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