Thomas Phibbs, a younger brother to Matt Phibbs, was born in Jarvis, Ontario, Canada on Aug 30, 1870. He married Lulu Jeffries, also born in Canada in 1897. They emigrated from Canada to Minnesota in 1898. In 1900, they were living at Rosebud in Polk County, but then moved to the Bemidji area.
Mrs. Tom Phibbs died at her home two and a half miles south of Bemidji, after an illness of two weeks, in 1917. She was 43 years old and left a husband and four children: Lettie, Stacy, Gertrude, Evelyn. Thomas Phibbs continued to farm and in 1920, his sister-in-law, Mary Jeffries was living with them, no doubt helping with the children.
Thomas died in November, 1944. His children, Mrs. Lettie Goerke, Mrs. Evelyn Boyer, and Stacy Phibbs all lived in Bemidji. His daughter Gertrude Holt had moved to Washington, D.C.