Lealand Enoch Richard Phillips

Lealand Enoch Richard Phillips was born in Spencer, Indiana, in 1898, to Luke Phillips and Sarah Edmerson Phillips. He attended DePauw University from 1919-1922 and the Ohio State University from 1923-1924. He then came to Yale Divinity School for part of a semester in 1924-1925. He later attended Northwestern University. As of the 1930 census, he was living in Indiana with his family and employed as an AME minister. Phillips died some time before 1937, and his mother reported in a letter to Yale that at the time of his death he was away from home doing religious work.