John Sanborn Phillips
John Sanborn Phillips (1861–1949) attended Knox College in Illinois, where he worked on the student newspaper and met S. S. McClure. After earning an associate's degree, he entered Harvard College as a junior, and graduated in 1885, magna cum laude.[1][2] In 1887 McClure hired him to manage the home office of the McClure Newspaper Syndicate (founded in 1884).
John Sanborn Phillips
July 2, 1861
February 28, 1949 (aged 87)
Publisher
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Samuel Huntington (grandson)
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 the publisher McClure, Phillips and Company.[3][4]
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.[3]