C6 Friday, April 8, 2016, Bangor Daily News obituaries Ogden Mills Phipps, patriarch of thoroughbred racing dynasty, dies

BY MARGARET COLLINS AND STEPHEN MILLER BLOOMBERG

Ogden Mills Phipps, the patriarch of a thoroughbred- breeding dynasty and scion of the Carnegie Steel em- pire, has died. He was 75. He died Wednesday at CONTRIBUTED PHOTO New York Presbyterian Hos- Clayton Old Elk (from left), Dora Old Elk and Anna Old Elk pital in New York City, the of the Crow Tribe in Montana attended a celebration in Jockey Club, a group that 2005. oversees the breeding indus- try, said in a statement. No cause was given. American Indian Phipps, or “Dinny” as his friends called him, had run Bessemer Trust Co., a New York-based wealth manage- who was his tribe’s ment firm with more than $100 billion in assets, for two decades and remained a board member until last last war chief dies year. But he is perhaps better CHARLES BERTRAM | LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | TNS known as the head of the Orb, with Joel Rosario up, captures the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill BY EMILY LANGER themselves with Custer, a racing stable that won a Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2013. THE WASHINGTON POST U.S. cavalry commander. Kentucky Derby in 2013, The National Park Ser- came within a coin-toss of character,” said Dixon the successful firm that it of fame jockey who rode for Joe Medicine Crow, an vice described Medicine owning the legendary Secre- Boardman, founder of Opti- is,” said Stuart S. Janney III, Phipps and is now a racing American Indian who wore Crow, who was 11 when his tariat some five decades ago ma Fund Management and his cousin and Bessemer’s analyst for NBC. war paint under an Army grandfather Whiteman and raced hundreds of top Phipps’s longtime friend. current chairman. Ogden Mills Phipps was uniform during World War Runs Him died, as “the last thoroughbreds across the “Very beloved everywhere The family’s horse-racing born Sept. 18, 1940, in New II, conducting battlefield he- living person with a direct country under its famed he went, whether it was on operation has never been York, according to Marquis roics that made him his oral history from a partici- black and cherry-red silks. the race track, or business flashy either, eschewing the Who’s Who. His parents tribe’s last war chief, and pant of the Battle of Little The Phipps family has at Bessemer, or on the golf kind of high-profile purchas- were Ogden Phipps and the who distinguished himself Bighorn in 1876,” where been royalty in New York course, or while fishing, es of multimillion-dollar former Lillian Stokes Bost- as a guardian of his people’s Custer was killed and his horse-racing since the 1920s, which was one of his great young racehorses that others wick. history, died April 3 at a forces overwhelmingly de- dating back to the years passions.” have made in a bid to capture He attended Deerfield hospice center in Billings, feated. after Phipps’s great-grandfa- Bessemer Trust, while the Kentucky Derby. Phipps Academy in Deerfield, Mas- Montana. He was 102. Years later, Medicine ther, Henry Phipps, sold his not as well-known as some would get a Derby trophy, sachusetts, and Yale Univer- A half-sister, Louella Crow would observe that the stake in the steel power- of Wall Street’s flashier nonetheless, when Orb, a sity, in New Haven, Con- Whiteman Runs Him John- Indians had “won the battle house that he had co-found- firms, has quietly been a product of the family’s breed- necticut, where he received son, confirmed his death and lost a way of life.” ed with his friend Andrew major player in the wealth- ing operation, splashed home a bachelor of arts degree in and said she did not know As a tribal leader, Medi- Carnegie. Some of the pro- management industry for to victory in 2013. 1963. the cause. cine Crow advocated on be- ceeds from the sale went years. As of 2015, the firm Decades earlier, the In addition to golf and In 2009, President Barack half of American Indians for into the founding of Besse- ranked fourth by assets Phippses famously missed fishing, he was a court ten- Obama presented Medicine educational opportunities mer Trust; some went into under advisement among out on the chance to own nis player and is slated to be Crow with the Presidential greater than those initially horse-racing. Ogden Mills firms worldwide that cater Secretariat when a coin toss inducted into the Interna- Medal of Freedom, the na- offered to him. He attended Phipps, who took over the to wealthy families, behind conducted with an associate tional Court Tennis Hall of tion’s highest civilian schools with mixed student racing stable from his fa- the private banks of HSBC in the breeding industry Fame this summer, as his honor. The award recog- populations and recalled a ther, Ogden Phipps, was Holdings, Citigroup, and earned them a non-descript father was in 2001. nized him as “a warrior and white girl tormenting him chairman of New York- Northern Trust Corp., ac- filly instead of the horse that Phipps is survived by his living legend” whose mili- by jabbing him with a safety based Jockey Club and years cording to data compiled by would go on to dominate the wife of 46 years, the former tary service, educational pin. The Indian children, he earlier had also sat atop the Bloomberg. 1973 Triple Crown. Andrea Broadfoot, and chil- achievement and dedication said, belittled each other for New York Racing Associa- “Dinny’s strong leader- “He was really all about dren Kayce, Kelley, Lilly, to cultural preservation “trying to be a white man” tion’s Board of Trustees. ship and unwavering integ- the good of the sport,” said Daisy, Samantha and Ogden, made him a “symbol of by speaking English. “He was a larger than life rity helped make Bessemer Jerry Bailey, a retired hall according to the statement. strength and survival.” At age 10, he could not Medicine Crow once re- read. But he persevered in marked that he had divided his effort to gain an educa- his life between “two tion. He would later say, ac- Winston Moseley, convicted killer worlds.” One was that of the cording to Viola, that “with Crow Nation, the small an education, you are a Northern Plains tribe to white man’s equal; without which he belonged, located an education, you are his in Kitty Genovese case, dies at 81 primarily in Montana. The prisoner.” other was the world beyond Medicine Crow received a the reservation, where he bachelor’s degree in sociolo- was known as an ambassa- gy and psychology from Lin- BY SARAH KAPLAN television sets — that’s what that there was no evidence for only called the police some- dor for American Indians. field College in McMin- THE WASHINGTON POST he was doing when he was ar- the report of 38 witnesses — time later, after retreating to He became the first mem- nville, Oregon, in 1938 and a rested five days after Geno- that number was thought to another neighbor’s apart- ber of his tribe to graduate master’s degree in anthro- “For more than half an vese’s death. Under question- be a loose estimate of the num- ment. from college and receive a pology from the University hour 38 respectable, law-abid- ing, he confessed to the mur- ber of people interviewed by The police, too, have been master’s degree, then joined of Southern California in ing citizens in Queens der of Genovese and killing or police, tossed around during a implicated in these newer ac- the armed forces and was 1939. watched a killer stalk and stab raping a number of other lunch between the police com- counts. Like some of Geno- sent to wartime Europe. An He was working toward a a woman in three separate at- women. A New York jury missioner and a New York vese’s neighbors, they may ocean away from his tribal doctorate when he decided tacks in Kew Gardens,” the swiftly found him guilty and Times editor only to be im- have taken the woman’s territory, he encountered to enlist in the Army. In New York Times reported on condemned him to the electric mortalized in print. Likewise, screams for a lover’s quarrel the opportunity to complete combat, he carried a feather March 27, 1964, two weeks chair; that sentence was later the American Psychologist that didn’t warrant their in- the traditional war deeds, or for protection. His decora- after a New York woman commuted to life in prison. article argues, there is no evi- tervention. In 1964, marital coups, required for the des- tions included the Bronze named Kitty Genovese was Four years later, during a dence that witnesses actually rape was not a crime in New ignation of war chief. Star Medal. brutally killed. short-lived escape during a observed the murder in its York, and domestic violence Among those deeds was After the war, he became According to the Times, lightly-guarded trip to the hos- entirety, or that they ignored cases — in the rare instance the capture of an enemy — a land appraiser with the none of those 38 people both- pital, Moseley committed an- it. where they were prosecuted in his case, German — horse. Bureau of Indian Affairs, ered to call the police during other rape and held two hos- “Kitty Genovese was not — were considered in family, Medicine Crow was credited donning a jacket and tie dur- the assault, even as Genovese tages at gunpoint. He also par- killed by apathy,” Kevin Cook, rather than criminal, courts. with taking 50. ing the day. But “after 5 screamed “Save me.” One did ticipated in the Attica Prison author of “Kitty Genovese: Beating would not become After the war, he became o’clock,” he remarked to an only after Genovese was al- riot of 1971, which left dozens The Murder, The Bystanders, grounds for divorce for anoth- the official historian of the interviewer, “I’d turn into ready dead. Another later told of people dead. The Crime That Changed er two years. Crow. For more than six de- an Indian.” authorities, “I didn’t want to Moseley would spend 52 America,” told WNYC. “She All of that was on top of the cades, he endeavored to pre- For his historical and an- get involved” — words that years behind bars — making was killed by a monster fact that, in those pre-911 days, serve the memory of his an- thropological research, would later become emblem- him the longest-serving in- named Winston Moseley.” police were sometimes disin- cestors, among them his Medicine Crow conducted atic of bystander apathy and mate in New York, the perpe- Indeed, Lemann wrote in clined to do anything about grandfather Whiteman extensive oral histories with urban decline that the killing trator of a crime that would the New Yorker, a number of ordinary citizens’ calls — as Runs Him, a scout for tribal elders. He became a was thought to represent. live in infamy. In a 2013 parole people did call the police. An- some of the newer reports sug- George Armstrong Custer sought-after speaker and Though it was just one of interview, he said he was other man heard Genovese’s gested they did in the Geno- during the American Indian published writings includ- 636 murders in New York that weary of the ceaseless visits screams during Moseley’s ini- vese case. Wars. ing the books “From the year, the story led to public from journalists and inter- tial assault and yelled “Leave “It was a time when the po- “There is absolutely no Heart of the Crow Country: outcry and national soul- view requests. that girl alone,” driving him lice weren’t necessarily your one like him left in America, The Crow Indians’ Own Sto- searching. Good Samaritan “It just goes on and on and away. Because Genovese’s friend,” Cook told NPR in in Indian country,” Herman ries” (1992) and “Counting laws were enacted in all 50 on,” he said, according to the lungs had been punctured, she 2014. “There were many ac- J. Viola, a curator emeritus Coup: Becoming a Crow states, the 911 system was de- Associated Press. “I’d just pre- likely wasn’t able to scream counts in which people called of the National Museum of Chief on the Reservation veloped, and countless social fer to die and be done with this when Moseley ultimately re- in and were invited to mind the American Indian, said and Beyond” (2006). psychologists scrambled to than keep going over this, turned to sexually assault and their own business or move to in an interview. His first wife, the former understand how so many wit- year after year after year.” stab her in her apartment another neighborhood if you Medicine Crow was born Charlotte Heminger, died in nesses could do so little — a Yet the killing that trailed building’s vestibule, before don’t like it there.” on Oct. 27, 1913, in Lodge 1942. His second wife, the phenomenon later termed the Moseley throughout his life fleeing and leaving her for These revised accounts Grass, Montana, and grew former Gloria Morrison, “bystander effect.” More than and Genovese in her death dead. don’t alter the indelible im- up on a reservation. died in 2009 after 61 years of half a century later, Geno- didn’t quite mean what Amer- When Genovese did die, she pact that the case has had on “In those days Crow fami- marriage. vese’s name still inevitably icans thought it did. People was in the arms of a brave the American psyche. For lies didn’t have furniture,” Survivors include a son triggers anxiety, anger and looked at the killing, with its neighbor who left her apart- the Genovese family, it’s he later recalled. “There from an earlier relationship, collective guilt, not to mention lurid sexual elements and ra- ment to help the bleeding girl, been a nightmare — some- were no beds. Everyone Duane Brink of Salem, Ore- bitter debates about what cial undertones (Genovese even though she wasn’t sure thing to scrutinize endlessly, slept on the floor on blan- gon; a daughter from his those alleged 38 witnesses was white and attractive, the attacker had left for good. as Kitty’s brother Bill has kets.” Softballs, he recount- first marriage, Diane Medi- should have done. Moseley was African-Ameri- The revisionist history of done (he produced a docu- ed, were fashioned “out of cine Crow Reynolds of Three But the name of her killer, a can and a repeat rapist), and the Genovese killing does not mentary about the case last buckskin and stuffed with Forks, Montana; a son from man named Winston Moseley, the apparently apathetic re- exonerate those who failed to year) or else push away. The fur from a deer’s tail.” his second marriage, Ronald had all but disappeared until sponse of the 38 witnesses who stop it. According to Ameri- “modern parable” of Geno- Medicine Crow grew up Medicine Crow of Lodge Monday, when prison officials might have stopped it, and can Psychologist, many peo- vese’s killing, as the Ameri- with grandparents who had Grass; his half-sister; and at the maximum security they saw an encapsulation of ple said they heard the woman can Psychologist termed it, lived before the establishment numerous grandchildren Clinton Correctional Facility everything they feared about screaming but assumed that it also seemed to presage the of reservations. They schooled and great-grandchildren. A in Dannemora, New York, an- modern urban life: the peril- was a domestic dispute — and next decades of white flight him in ancient customs, teach- daughter from his second nounced that Moseley died ous anonymity, the absence of thus none of their business, and urban decay. ing him to run barefoot in the marriage, Vernelle Medi- last week at age 81. community, the breakdown of according to 1960s social On the other hand, the mod- snow and wash himself in frig- cine Crow, died in 2015. Moseley was a “chilling social conventions, the pros- mores. One witness saw that ern 911 system has unquestion- id river water. In an interview with Lin- character,” as New Yorker pect of violence around every Genovese was stabbed during ably helped save lives, even if it He also absorbed the field College, Medicine Crow contributor Nicholas Lemann corner. the initial attack, outside the did not come in time to save Crow traditions of loyalty once reflected on his distinc- wrote in a 2014 piece about the A series of subsequent in- apartment building. And an- Genovese. And the case gave and valor in battle. The tion as the last Crow war chief. case, with a strange capacity vestigations (including one by other man, a neighbor and rise to an entire field of re- Crow had been known for He observed that he would join for compartmentalization. He the New York Times itself) re- friend of Genovese’s, had search into diffusion of respon- their patriotism since the “the ranks of Sitting Bull, was 29, married, the father of vealed that the shocking story opened his door to see Mose- sibility and the bystander ef- 19th century, according to Geronimo, Black Hawk and all two and steadily employed at that ran two weeks after the ley stabbing the young woman fect — phenomena that de- Viola, when they sought to the brave warriors of the past the time of Genovese’s killing. killing had misreported many inside the building but was cades of social science have defend themselves from en- protecting their lands and But he also routinely broke of the details. A 2007 article in too terrified to do anything proven real, even if the story croaching tribes by allying their way of life.” into people’s homes to steal American Psychologist said other than close the door. He that started it isn’t quite.