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Ebenezer S. Phillips, for fifty-five years a resident of Bridgeport is at the head and owner of the transfer business operating under the name of J. H. Luddington & Company. He was born in Vermont in the town of Strafford, Orange county, 1842, and on attaining his majority removed from the Green Mountain state to Bridgeport, where he has since remained. For five years he was associated with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company and afterward became a lumber salesman for S. C. Nickerson, who owned and controlled a wholesale and retail business. Mr. Phillips remained in that connection for nine years and afterward spent seven years as a lumber salesman with Hawley & Beacher. He was next connected with the Wheeler & Howe Company in the counting department for nine years or more, after which he turned his attention to the business of hauling and trucking, purchasing a half interest in the J. H. Luddington & Company. A quarter of a century ago he bought out Mr. Luddington. The business has been established for more than thirty years and he still retains the old firm name although he now owns the business. At one time he had for a partner, Nelson Freshour. He is engaged in trucking, forwarding, etc., and his equipment permits the handling of heavy machinery. He employs fifteen people and gives his entire attention to the business. The company has built its own stables on Berkshire avenue and the business has grown rapidly and substantially, becoming one of the important undertakings of this character in Bridgeport.