Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-04
A WEDDING.
D. o. MILLS SON ENGAGED TO TIE
DAUGHTER OF A HISTORIC RACE.
nlustrious Antecedents of the Livingston
Family-old and Distinguished Stock
Innoculated With New Blood.

Correspondence of the RECORD USIoS.l
New YORK, January 26, 1882.
As Californians in general feel an inter-
est in Californians, whether at home or
abroad, from the mere fact-independent
of any other-o their living or their hav-
| ing lived in the golden State, the engage
1nent of the son of one of your most prom.
inent citizens to the daughter of con-
spicuous New Yorker of illustrious lineage
should be circumstance of suffi note
to justify its communication to the RECORD
UNION.
Last winter informed you of the fore.
Swallowed connubial fate of the sole dsugh-
ter of D. o. Mills-her fate was Whitelaw
Reid, of the Tribune And now the altar
is preparing for the hymenial sacrifice of
his only son, D. Ogden Mills. Insatiate
archer Cupid, could not one satisfy your
amorous greed Must you, divine Tor in.
fernal, as it happens) darter of deliciously
painful arrows, transtix two victims in the
same family within twelvemonth? Eheu !!
Eheu! Eheu! 1t is the way of humanity
and the world.
THE CONSOLATION IS
Some consolation is to be found in most
things-that in the cooperative house
keeping that has ensued and will ensue
from these erotic attacks, there are ample
means to supply the larder, as well as
any potential increase in the mysterious
arithmetic of Nature, by which the addi.
ton OF one to one usually makes four or
five, sometimes eight, ten or twelve. Miss
Mills and Whitelaw Reid were married last
May, and the vulgarly curious are tattling
the fact that d. O. Mills will speedily be
grandpapa. Why is it, wonder, that the
bulk of people seem to be so much con-
cerned about the threatened matri-
monial and prospectively parental rela-
ton of their remotest acquaintance, even
of men and women they have never seen.
Wondering is futile but the concern un.
questionably prevails in all classes of So
ciety. And the concern is all the more
singular, since, after marriage and the
birth OF children, the married and the chill
| dren are commonly relegated to the realm of
prose, and very unattractive prose withal.
The young lady to whom ID. Ogden Mills
is engaged-the announcement has just
been made-is Miss Ruth Livingston,
daughter of Maturin Livingston, and sis
ter of Lady Cavendish Bentinck, whose re.
cent union at Newport made more than a
passing ripple in fashionable circles there.
The Mills family may be said to be con-
temporaneous, so far as social consequence
goes, d. o. Mills having, believe, made
his own money and place in the world,
which ia to his credit and his honor. Mills
is most estimable and sensible man, an
excellent citizen of the Republic, a thor.
ough and typical American. Although
self-made, he has, am told, none of those
defects so often found in the self-made
such as conceit, assumption, hardness, ego
tism, roughness, intolerance. They who
know him say he is the reverse of all these
that, Notwithstanding his vast wealth-his
fortune is estimated at from $40 600, 600
to $4,000, 200, even S25, 600. 000-he is
free from purse vanity that he is modest,
amiable, benevolent and universally re-
spected California furnished him with
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES,
And he mad the wisdom and the powtr to
profit by them. Since he has fixed his
home in New York he has bought largely
of real estate, and is now erecting some
superb buildings. His purchases, like all
his investments, have been sagacious, and
he has added, hear, several millions to
his prodigious riches within three years by
his operations in this city. Not dozen of
his countrymen have at his age-he is, /
think, inside of 55-amassed fortunes equal
to his, and his fortune is very safe and
solid one. He is not rash Spectator, and
never has been. He sees far thinks
deeply calculates shrewdly the result is
a princely possession.
Maturin Livingston is entirely different
the antipodes of D. o. Mills. He inner.
tied wealth; he has occupied himself
mainly in enjoying it; he is genuinely, in
the conventional and in the higher import
of the word, gentleman His family is
one of the Oldest in the Rspublic-m
older, indeed, than are many titled fami-
lies in the Old World. The Livingstons
are OF historic renown. They have not
only been something, they have-which is
infinitely better-done something. They
have, therefore, both blood and perform.
ance, which alone lends grace and dignity
to blood.
The Livingstons have been prominent
and honorable in America for more than
two centuries they antedate by one hun
dred years the formation of the Re. ublic.
They have exercised large social and polit.
lcal influence in the province and State Of
New York since 1878. In that year, Rob-
ert Livingston, one of the children OF John
LlvingstoD, the common ancestor of the
family, and lineal descendant Of the
fourth Lord Livingston, came to this coun-
try, and received big tract of land, COM
prising large portions CT what are now
Duchess and Columbia counties, from Gov
ernor Dougan, afterward confirmed by
royal charter Of George l., erecting the
manor and lordship of Livingston, with the
privilege CT holding q Court leet and
Court baron, and with the right of sdvow.
son to all the churches Ia its boundaries.
John Livingston was an earnest, effective
preacher of the Reformed Church of Scot
land, who, having been banIshed for nom
conformity in 1868, took refuge in the
Netherlands, and died, nine years later, at
Rotterdam. The tract granted is yet
known as
THE LIVINGSTON MANOR,
Despite the fact that an ample part passed
long since out of the hands of the family.
Robert Livingston, who was a man of char.
acter and force, caused the fitting out of
the ship with which Captain Kidd under.
took to repress the pirates, and turned pi.
rate himself. He Livingston, not Kidd
married one of the Schuyler girls, who
bore him three sons, Robert, Phillip and
Gilbert, the fore fathers of the most distin-
guished Livingstons in this country.
Philip, signer of the Declaration of indie
pendence, son of Philip and great grand.
son of John Livingston, was born at AL
bany, and died. aged g. at York, Pa. He
was graduated at Yale College, took
prominent part in colonial politics, was
strong Wing, and oneof the most devoted
patriots of the Revolution.
William, bio ;her of Philip, was Governor
of New jersey early espoused the cause
of the colonies; was an upright magistrate
and staunch Republican. Brockholst,
a son Of Philip, was an excellent soldier
and jurist, having served as aid to Cen
eral Schuyler, and was present at the sur
render of Burgoyne. He was subsequently
raised to the bench of the Supreme Court
of the United States, and won a high rep
utation as advocate. Judge and scholar.
Robert B., better known as Chancellor
;vipoefop was n Iaadipn ,nor,ha- Of fba