John Shaffer Phipps

John Shaffer Phipps (1874 - 1958) the heir to the Phipps fortune and owner of Grace Shipping and (as were his brothers) a director of the U S Steel Corporation (now UXS). Known as "Jay", in 1897 he married Margarita Celia Grace, the daughter of Michael Grace of Kilkenny, Ireland, who, with his brother William, founded the Grace Shipping Lines in South America. John and Margarita had four children: John Henry Howard, Peggy, Michael, and Hubert Phipps. Phipps purchased an old 160-acre Quaker farm on Long Island where he built a large mansion designed by George Abraham Crawley with alterations by Horace Trumbauer called "Westbury House" with magnificent gardens that following his death was became a non-profit organization that today is known as Westbury House & Gardens and is open to the public.