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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
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-
