Phipps family

In 1907, Phipps established the Bessemer Trust Company to manage his substantial assets that would be shared by his offspring following his death. Phipps was also one of the pioneer investors in Florida real estate. At one time, he and his family owned one-third of the town of Palm Beach, 28 miles of oceanfront between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, prime bayfront property in downtown Miami, and 75 square miles of land in Martin County. The Phipps family donated to the town of Palm Beach one of the most significant gifts in county history: an ocean-to-lake frontage property that is now known as Phipps Park. Another contribution was the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh.

The Phipps family owned country estates in Old Westbury, New York, on the Gold Coast, the stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America.

Phipps built a mansion on 115 acres in Lake Success, New York (also on the Gold Coast), which he used from its completion in 1919 until his death in 1930. During World War II, John Phipps and his wife Margarita arranged for the home to be used to house British evacuees. In 1949 the family donated the property to the Great Neck School District. The mansion was converted into the administration building for the district, and Great Neck South High School and Junior High School were built on the site.[1]

By 1974, Bessemer Trust Company developed an expertise in wealth management that allowed it to take on other clients through the creation of a national bank headquartered in New York City. Phipps' grandchildren, from his son John S. Phipps, donated to the public the Westbury House estate that is now known as Old Westbury Gardens.

Gladys Mills Phipps, granddaughter of Darius Ogden Mills and wife of Henry Carnegie Phipps, was prominent among horse breeders and owners in American Thoroughbred horse racing, as were her son, daughters and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She founded Wheatley Stable with her brother, Odgen Livingston Mills. Recently, first cousins Odgen Mills (Dinny) Phipps and Stewart Janney III's horse Orb won the 2013 Kentucky Derby.

Family members include:

• Henry Phipps Jr. (1839-1930), owner of Bonnie Blink, Lake Success
• Lawrence C. Phipps (1862-1958), nephew of Henry W., United States Senator from Colorado.
• Amy Phipps Guest (1872-1959), daughter of Henry W. Phipps, Jr., owner of Templeton, Old Westbury and Villa Artemis, Palm Beach
• John Shaffer Phipps (1874-1958), oldest son of Henry W. Phipps, Jr., owner of Westbury House, Old Westbury and Casa Bendita, Palm Beach
• Helen Phipps Martin (1876-1934), daughter of Henry W. Phipps, Jr., owner of Knole, Old Westbury
• Henry Carnegie Phipps (1879-1953), son of Henry W. Phipps, Jr., owner of Spring Hill, Old Westbury and Heamaw, Palm Beach
• Howard Phipps (1881-1981), son of Henry W. Phipps, Jr., owner of Erchless, Old Westbury
• Gladys Mills Phipps (1883-1970), wife of Henry Carnegie Phipps
• Lillian Bostwick Phipps (1906-1987), wife of Odgen Phipps
• Ogden Phipps (1908-2002), son of Henry Carnegie Phipps
• Cynthia Phipps (1945- 2007), daughter of Henry Carnegie Phipps
• Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps (1940-2016), great-grandson of Henry W. Phipps, Jr.
• Raymond R. Guest (1907-1991), son of Amy Phipps Guest
• Winston Frederick Churchill Guest (1906-1982), son of Amy Phipps Guest
• Diana Guest Manning (1909-1994), daughter of Amy Phipps Guest
• Barbara Phipps Janney (1911-1987), daughter of Henry Carnegie Phipps
• Stuart Symington Janney III (born 1948), great-grandson of Henry W. Phipps, Jr., grandson of Henry Carnegie Phipps
• Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff (born 1963), great-grandson of Henry W. Phipps, Jr., grandson of Howard Phipps
• Randolph Hobson Guthrie III (born 1967)

• Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
• Phipps Garden Apartments