Hon. Stephen H. Phillips, of the class of 1842, died at his home in Salem yesterday morning. He was born in Salem in 1823 and prepared for Harvard in Washington, D. C.
After graduation he studied law in the Dana Law School for three years and then in the office of the Hon. B. R. Curtis, of Boston. In 1846 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and in 1851 was appointed district attorney for Essex Country.
In 1856 and 1857 Mr. Phillips was the city solicitor of Salem, and in the latter year, at the age of 34, was elected attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1866 he was made attorney-general of the Hawaiian Government, an office which made him one of the four cabinet ministers.
Mr. Phillips was a delegate to the first Republican conventions which nominated John C Fremont and Lincoln for President.
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