Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-18
WILL OF D. 0. MILLS
Mrs. Reid Takes Rank Among
Richest Women.
HER SHARE is s3o,ooo,oQo
Brother Gets Like Amount-Half
Million for Charity-Testa-
ment Is Brief.
HER SHARE is $30,0O0,0QO

| NEW YORK, January 1s.-The will
of Darius Ogden Mills. filed in the
| surrogates court yesterday. makes his
daughter Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, one OF
the wealthiest women Of the country.
She is to divide equally with her
brother, Ogden Mills-the only other
child of the testator-his fortune. esti-
mated at $6O.OOO.OOO. after requests to
charity amounting to 100000. are
taken out.
Mrs. Reid and Ogden Mills are made
the executors of the will.
Stetson. Jennings & Russell. attorneys
for the Mills family, announced that
the testator expressed to his children
before his death, wish to leave $780,
900 to st. Luke,s Hospital in San Fran
cisco. AS this provision was not in
corporated in the will, it was explained,
Mrs. Reid and her brother will pay that
sum to the hospital after the estate Is
settled. The money is to be expended
by the hospital authorities as the chill
dren shall deem best.
The only specific charitable requests
in the will are: Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art of New York. s1OO.OOO,
American Museum of Natural History.
800, 900; the Home for Incurables, New
York. 100000; New York Botanical
Gardens in the Bronx, $4,000; Ameri-
can Geographical Society, $4,000; the
National Red Cross. $4,000
Context of Will.
An exact copy Of the will follows:
T. Darius Ogden Mills, Of the city
of New York. do make this my last
will and testament in manner follow
ing:
ircf n ho o1 my
and funeral expenses be paid as soon
as possible after my decease.
Second give and bequeath to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in the city
of New York the sum of 100000.
/ give and bequeath to the American
Museum of Natural History in the city
of New York, the sum of 100000.
| give and bequeath to the Home for
Incurables in the city of New York the
sum of 100000.
/ give to the New York Botanical Gar
dens in Bronx Park the sum of $4,000
| give and bequeath to the American
Geographical Society in the city of New
York the sum of $4,000.
I give and bequeath to the National
Red Cross, Incorporated by act of Con-
gress on January ), 1908, the sum of
49, 600
Residuary Legatees.
Third give. devise and bequeath all
the rest, residue and remainder of my es-
tate, both real and personal, wheresoever
situated. to my two children. Ogden Mills
and Elizabeth NJ. Reid. wife of Whitelaw
Reid, their heirs. executors, administra
tors and assigns forever, to be equally
divided between them.
In case of the death of either of my
said children before my own death, the
issue per stripes of such child shall take
in equal shares the share the parent
would have received had he or she sur
vived me. In case OF the death of either
of my children before my death, leaving
no issue. the share herein given to such
child shall go to the survivor. or if my
other child shall have died leaving issue,
me surviving. then to such issue in equal
shares, per stripes, and l devise and be-
uueath the same accordingly.
Fourth nominate, constitute and ap-
point my SON. Ogden Mills. and my
daughter. Elizabeth M. Reid, executors
of this my last will and testament. and
in case Of the death of my said daughter,
Elizabeth NJ Reid, before me or before
the final discharge of her duties as execu-
tor, 1 appoint my son-in-law, Whitelaw
Reid. executor in her place.
Full Powers Granted.
In order to facilitate the payment of
debts and legacies and the division Of
my estate among any reSiduary deviseeS
and legatees, l hereby give my execu-
tors and their successor or successors.
full power and authority, in their dis
erection. to sell, dispose of and con-
vey all or any part of my estate, real
or personal, to make cOnveyanceS of
any character. and to accept purchase
money mortgages in full or part pay
ment Of the proceeds of any such sale,
and exercise the above named powers,
or any of them, upon such terms, in
such manner and at such times, as they,