She attended Sherwood Music School in Chicago before entering Bluffton College. Phyllis graduated from Central High School in the Class of 1935. She gave her first public performance there, playing the chimes, when she was ten years old. The future comedienne attended the Franklin School of Trinity Methodist Church. Her parents, Perry and Ada Driver, lived in the Elektron Apartments on W. Phyllis Diller was born and grew up in Lima, just two blocks from the old Carnegie Library. At the time of his death in 1898, he was beginning to launch a Chinese railroad. In 1890, he was elected Senator from Ohio and served from 1891 through 1897. He was a delegate from Ohio at the 1888 Democratic National Convention, and the following year Brice was elected Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Overall, he helped organize eleven railroads during his career.
He first worked with the Lake Erie & Western Railroad and then became involved in the development of the Nickel Plate Road. He practiced in Lima but was not overly successful until he expanded his view to include the legal problems of the railroads. Brice then pursued graduate work at the law school of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar.
Following his time in college and military service, he returned to Lima, where his family had moved. He did his preparatory and undergraduate work at Miami University, Oxford, where he enlisted in the Union Cause.
Calvin Stewart Brice was born in Morrow County, Ohio.
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