The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-01-12
DARIUS OGDEN MILLS DEAD.
Left Large Fortune and Was n
Man of Great Energy

San Francisco, Cal, Jan. A.
Darius Ogden Mills, aphilanthropist
and financier, father OF Mrs. White
law Reid, wife of the Ambassador to
Great Britain, grandfather of the
Countess of Granard and director in
many corporations, died at his win
ter home, near here, of heart dis
ease. He was eighty-four years old.
Mr.. Mills fortune is estimated at
from $25, 100000 up. lie made il
entirely himself having begun life
as poor boy.
Death came almost without warn
ing, after a period of better health
than Mr.. Mills had enjoyed in sever
al years. Mrs. Reid was the only
child at his bedside when the end
came, his son. Ogden Mills, and his
wife having started for New York
yesterday, believing the aged finan-
cier to be in excellent condition.
Mr.. Mills health had been feeble
and DR.. Hertzstein was summoned
hurriedly when his patient was sud
denly attacked. He arrived shortly
after Mr.. Mills death.
DR.. Horzstein said that Mr. Mills
death was due to angina pertoris,
the form of heart trouble from which
he had suffered for many months
and which compelled his retirement
from all active engagements. He
appeared feeble when he arrived in
San Francisco a few weeks ago, but
his ailment had shown no alarming
symptoms. His daughter, Mrs, Reid
has been his constant companion
since he left New York.
Mr.. Mills was born in West Salem
Westchester county, n. Y, in 1925.
He was educated at North Salem and
at Mount Pleasant Academy, Sing
Sing, New York.
Starting his business career as a
clerk in New York city, he became
cashier of the Merchants Bank OF
Erie county, at Buffalo, in 1S47
When the gold excitement arose Mr.
Mills came to California, arriving in
lS49, to take from the start a large
part in the development of the Gold
en- State.
He first founded the d. o. Mills
bank in Sacramento, and, in 1864
became president of the Bank OF
California, which post he held till
1867. When this institution became
insolvent in 1878, Mr. Mills again
took the reins and placed it once
more on a sound basis.
The greater part of his time since
1880 was spent in New York City
where he built a system of hotels
and lodging houses for the poor
founded a training school for male
nurses and was active in many 9TH
er charities.
Mr.. Mills had a prominent hand in
as the owner of the Mills building
paid for, as alleged, by the profits
of a big speculation in Lake Shore
and the teeming hive of scores OF
millionaires. He was constantly en-
gagged in large operations, which he
conducted as quietly as possible, but
which usually became more or less
familiar to Wall street.
Mr.. Nils had prominent hand in
the building of the Southern Pacific
and for many years was a member
of it's directorate. b,
When the first sign of the failing
of his remarkable energy came two
years ago, he resigned from the
Southern Pacific and Erie director
ates. His holdings in upwards OF
thirty corporations in whose affairs
he once took active part, are said to
total many millions of dollars.
Mrs. Mills is survived by two
children, Mrs. Elizabeth Mills Reid
wife of Whitelaw Reid, United States
Ambassador to the Court of St
James, and a son, Ogden Mills. His
granddaughters, the twin daughters
of ogden Mills, are both married
Gladys Mills is the wife of Henry
Carnegie Phipps, of Pittsburg, a
member of the wealthy and exclu-
sive family of the steel million
aire" group. Miss Elizabeth Mills
is now the Countess Granard, hav-
ing married the Earl of Granard
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