Milford chronicle., 1912-12-20
WAITELAW REID
DIES IN LONDON
U. S. Ambassador SuGGumbS
to Heart Disease
HE Was Is YEARS OLD

] HSuSIaDiS bipiOIUaI was ElSHSiSN ~
a Score Of colleges-Noted Pub
Usher and Politician.
Whitelaw Reid, United States am
bassador to England, died in DOrcaes-
ter House, his residence In London.
At his side when the end came were
his wife, his daughter, Mrs. John
Ward, and his son-in-law, Mr.. Ward.
Mr. Reid was seyenty-five years oil.
Mr.. Reid succumbed to heart failure,
I following an attack of asthma, from
which trouble he had been suffering
since October. He had experienced
great discomfort for several days.
Whitelaw Reid, diplomatist and
journalist, was born in Xenia, Oh O.
Oct. p, 1887, the son Of Robert Carl
ton ard Marion Reid. He graduated
from Miami university, Oxford, Ohio
receiving the degree of A. B. in 1856.
The degree of A. M. was conferred
upon him by the same college in 1853,
and by the University of the City OF
New York in 1872. Dartmouth college
conferred Upon him the degree of LIZ
D. in 1873, Miami the same degree in
1890, Princeton in 1899, Yale in 1901,
Cambridge in 1902, st. Andrews in
1905 and oxford in 1907.
Shortly after his graduation from
Miami university he became editor of
the Xenia News. During his connec-
tion with this paper he acted in the
capacity of legislative correspondent
and in 1850 became war correspond
ent, reporting many of the big battles
of the Civil War. At different times
he was on the sstaff of both General
Thomas A. Norris and General w. S.
Rosecrans. In 1863 he left the battle
field to become librarian in the house
of representatives.
In 1869 he again returned to the
newspaper field. becoming a member
Of the editorial staff of the New York
Tribune and was elevated to the posi-
ton of managing editor shortly the.e
after Three years later he became !
editor in chief and proprietor of the 1
same paper.
In 1881 he married the daughter Of |
D. Ogden Mills, Californian of great !
wealth, who removed to New York. !
Mrs. Elizabeth Mills Reid and her 4
brother, Ogden Mills, divided equally I
the immense estate of their father, an |
estate estimated to be worth at the /
time of Mr.. Mills death fully 100000, |
900. The result of the marriage was
two children, Ogden Mills Reid, who |
recently succeeded his father in the
active control Of the Tribune, and Miss
Jean Reid.
In 1877 and again in 1881 Mr..
Reid was appointed United States
minister to Germany. He was elected
to the board Of regents of the State
University of New York. In 1902 he
became vice chancellor of the same
body, and in 1904 chancellor. From
1889 to 1892 he served as United
States minister to France, and it was
during this period that he won world
wide fame as a diplomatist.
Mr. Reid was nominated for the vice
presidency of the United States on
the Republican ticket in 1892, but was
defeated
President Mckinley appointed Mr..
Reid special ambassador of the United
States to Queen Victoria's jubilee in
1897. He was one of the peace com
mission which convened in Paris in
1898. The next honor conferred upon
Mr.. Reid was his appointment as spe-
cial ambassador to the coronation Of
King Edward VII. in 1902. Three years
later he was appointed United States
ambassador to England.