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Gaillard engaged were Van Rensselaer & Cruger, composed of Philip Van Rensselaer and Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger, at that time comptroller of Trinity Corporation. The office had always confined its activities to estates in its exclusive control and had moved along under policies long previously established. Soon after Mr. Gaillard became connected with the establishment, he in- troduced progressive policies and was ad- mitted to a partnership in 1897, when the firm was known as McVickar & Company, one of the most prominent in the general real estate business. In 1902, with his part- ner, Harry Whitney McVickar, Mr. Gail- lard organized the McVickar Realty Trust Company, with a capital and surplus of one million dollars. Two years later this was merged in the Empire State Trust Com- pany, later the Empire Trust Company, with a capital and surplus of one and one half millions. Mr. Gaillard was vice-presi- dent of the Mc\'ickar Company, and the real estate and mortgage business was con- ducted under the style of the McVickar- ijaillard Realty Company, and the insurance by Gaillard & Company. Mr. Gaillard con- tinued as vice-president of the Empire Trust Company until 1908, when he resigned and became vice-president of the New York Real Estate Security Company, which he had organized He is now president and director of the McVickar-Gaillard Realty Company and Gaillard & Company; a direc- tor of the Empire Trust Company ; vice-pres- ident and director of the Cedartown Knit- ting Company ; a director of the Josephine Knitting Alills Company and of the Vv'ahita Knitting Mills Company. He is a member of the Real Estate Board of Brokers and Real Estate Auctioneers' Association ; of the Merchants' Association ; Real Estate P>rokers of the State of New York ; and Al- lied Real Estate Interests. He is a member of the Virginians, the South Carolinians, ?nd South Carolina Historical Society, and governor of the New York Southern So- ciety. He is identified with many clubs, including the City Midday, Lawyers', Knoll- wood Country, Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket, Nevv York Athletic, City Lunch, Apawamis, Greenwich Country, and Manur- sing Island.

Mr. Gaillard married, February 22, 1906, in New York City, Mary Stamps Bateson,

born April 6, 1883, in St. Louis, Missouri, daughter of Charles E. and Mary (Stamps) Lateson. Her grandfather. Captain Isaac Stamps, of the Confederate army, was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, and is said to have been the one Confederate soldier who reached farthest south during that battle. His wife, who was a Miss Humphrey, was a niece of Jefferson Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Gaillard have a daughter, Mary Stamps I'ateson Gaillard, born December 29, 1906, in New York City.

Christian. The immigrant ancestor ot this family was "Mr. Thomas Christian" who came from the Isle of Man in the seven- teenth century and settled in Charles City county, Virginia. His oldest son, Thomas, married Rebecca Stith?; issue: Thomas, Robert, William. James, Constant, Rebecca, Ann, Mourning. James married Amy, daughter of Gideon Macon, of New Kent; issue: Judith. Gideon, Richard, Joel, Wil- liam. William's second wife was Susan Brown; issue: William. Henry, Elizabeth, Mar}-, .Susanna, Turner.

Captain Henry Christian was a soldier in the revolutionary war and served under Major General Marquis de la Fayette. He n'arried Martha Patteson, daughter of Jonathan Patteson; issue: John, Henry Asbury, Samuel Patteson.

Henry .\sbury Christian, son of Captain Henry Christian, married (first) Lucy Wood Dunscomb, daughter of Major .An- drew Dunscomb, who served in the revolu- tionary war from New York state. Major Dunscomb was subsequently appointed by the government to settle accounts of the United States with Virginia. For this reason he located in Richmond. He was mayor of that city in 1795, and held various other positions of trust and importance. Major Dunscomb's father, Daniel Duns- comb. was knighted on the field of Culloden for gallantry. In New York he was chosen a member of the general committee of safety for town and state ; his son Edward was sheriff of New York in 1810, trustee of Columbia College, and one of the founders of the Society of Cincinnati. Daniel Duns- comb and his sons are entombed under the chancel in old Trinity Church, New York. Children of Henry ,\sbury and Lucy Wood (Dunscomb) Christian: Andrew H., Mar-