Gerald L. Phillippe

(1909-1968) lived at Hay Springs and Lincoln. Business executive, served with General Electric Corporation from 1933 until the end of his life in various capacities, and as president and board chairman from 1961 when it had 168 manufacturing plants located in 134 cities in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and annual sales of almost $5 billion; he was credited with innovations in financial and accounting procedures, and encouragement of plant managers and employees to participate locally in public service; recipient of honorary degrees. Consult Sunday/Omaha/World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, June 11, 1967, pp. 7, 9 and Nation's Business, March 1968, pp. 36, 41-44 and New York Times obituary, October 18, 1968, p. 47 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 54 (1975) 198.

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