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==Early life and education== Waite Phillips and his identical twin brother Wiate<ref>{{Cite web|title=Phillips Family History|url=https://www.philmontscoutranch.org/museums/villa/history/|access-date=2021-04-06|website=Philmont Scout Ranch|language=en-US}}</ref> were born near [[Conway, Iowa]] to [[American Civil War|Civil War]] veteran Lewis "Lew" Franklin Phillips and Lucinda Josephine "Josie" Faucett Phillips.<ref name="EOHC-WaitePhillips">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=PH009 Andrea Martin, "Phillips, Waite (1883-1964)," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'']. Accessed April 15, 2015.</ref> Waite, the younger twin, was the seventh of ten children born into the Phillips family. In 1899, at age 16, Waite and Wiate left the {{convert|40|acre|m2|adj=on}} farm they called home, boarded a train and headed west. Their travels took them to most of the western and midwestern United States and parts of Canada. To support themselves, they worked a variety of jobs in fields such as [[railroad]] building, [[mining]] and [[lumbering]], and spent one winter trapping fur animals in the [[Bitterroot Mountains]]. Their adventure came to an end in [[Spokane, Washington]] on July 16, 1902, when Wiate died as a result of acute [[appendicitis]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wallis |first=Michael |title=Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-8061-4676-8 |location=Norman |pages=41 |language=en}}</ref>
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