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citizen and as a physician. He married, in 1852, Virginia, daughter of Hon. Ralph Wingfield, of Hanover, and thej^ were the parents of Gary Doran \\'ingfield, the sub- ject of this sketch.

As a boy, Gary Doran Wingtield went to Richmond and obtained a position with the old tobacco firm of Allen & Ginter, with whom he continued many years, being em- ployed during the last seventeen years of the time as a traveling salesman. During this period he traveled throughout the Southern states, and gained a wide acquaint- ance. Later he engaged in business on his own account in Ironton, Ohio, whence he returned to Richmond, in 1889. At that time natural ice was a valuable commodity, and was retailing for one and one-half dol- lars per hundred pounds. Mr. Wingfield set to work and soon organized the Crystal Ice Gompany, which engaged in the manu- facture of artificial ice, of which he became secretary and treasurer and general man- ager. He continued to conduct its affairs until the time of his death, and proved him- self a most capable business man, at the same time gaining by his upright methods and pleasant manners the friendship of his patrons. He was long prominent in the ice manufacturers associations, and filled offi- cial positions on the Southern Ice Exchange and in the Eastern Ice Association. During the years 1905-06 he was president of the Southern Ice Exchange, and from 1898 until his death was a member of its executive committee. In 1912 he was elected a mem- ber of the Eastern Ice Association, and was also a member of the advisory board of the Ice Manufacturers Exchange. Of genial and sociable nature, with broad sympathies and liberal mind, he was welcomed in busi- ness and social circles, and held in the high- est regard by all who were privileged to know him. He was very fond of sports, was a member of the Gommonwealth and Goun- try clubs, secretary and treasurer of the Richmond Shooting Glub, and president of the Tacoma Duck Glub. The "Ice and Re- frigeration Journal" of April, 1914. said of him :

His many friends will learn with deep sorrow of his death, Tuesday, March 24, at his home, after a brief illness. He was in his sixtieth year, but ap- peared much younger, and retained the vigor and activity of a man in his prime.

Mr. Wingfield married, in Richmond, De- cember 19, 1889, Georgia, daughter of John L. Grubbs, b}- whom he is survived, with their two children : Eleanor and Gary Doran \\'ingfield, both of whom are unmarried.

Claudius C. Phillips. Claudius G. Phil- lips, one of the leading merchants of New York City, was born November 27, 1865, at Chuckatuck, \'irginia. Air. Phillips is de- scended from stock that is connected with the Garland and Underwood families of Vir- ginia and that settled in Virginia after a period spent in New England.

It is not clear froin which branch of the Phillips stock in Europe this well known family of Phillips belongs. The name is common to a great many countries in Europe and in its original meaning has the signification of "the son of Philip." The name is prevalent in England and Wales. It is also a very prominent name in Ireland and Scotland, where it is an anglicized form of MacPhilipin, being derived from an an- cestor, Philipin, fourth son of Sir Edm.ond Albanach, who is numljer twenty-one on the pedigree of the Bourkes or De Burgos of Connaught, who trace their descent through Uilliam Mor de Burc, who married Isabel,' natural daughter of Richard I., King of England, widow of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, and was settled at Gastleconnel in 1 199, being descended through Charlemagne tr Pepin Le Vieux, Duke of Anstrasia.

Not one whit less illustrious is the Amer- ican genealogy of the family, for the grand- father of j\Ir. Claudius G. Phillips, John Phillips, of Virginia, was the brother of the father of Wendell Phillips, of Massachu- setts, the silver tongued orator of America, both emigrating to New England about the same time. The family is of old colonial stock, John Phillips, grandfather of Mr. Claudius C. Phillips, being the son of Wil- liam Phillips, who was born in 1737, died in 1772, having married Margaret Wendell. The father of William was John Phillips, born in 1701, died in 1768. having married Alary Buttolph. The father of John was Samuel Phillips, of Salem, Massachusetts, and his grandparents were the Rev. Sam- uel Phillips, born in 1625, died in 1696, and Sarah (Appleton) Phillips. The father of the Rev. Samuel Phillips, and immigrant ancestor of the whole Phillips family, was

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