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Ogden Livingston Mills (August 23, 1884 – October 11, 1937) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury in President Herbert Hoover's cabinet, during which time Mills pushed for tax increases, spending cuts and other austerity measures that would deepen the economic crisis.
Ogden Mills was born on December 18, 1856, in Sacramento, California, to Jane Templeton Cunningham and Darius Ogden Mills (1825–1910). [2] His father was a highly successful banker and investor who, upon his death in 1910, left Ogden Mills and his sister, Elisabeth Mills, who married Whitelaw Reid an estate valued at $36,227,391. [3]
The Staatsburgh State Historic Site preserves a Beaux-Arts mansion designed by McKim, Mead, and White and the home's surrounding landscape in the hamlet of Staatsburg, Dutchess County, New York, United States. The historic site is located within Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park. [1]
Darius Ogden Mills and family (c. 1890) with Whitelaw Reid and J. P. Morgan at the Millbrae estate—present-day Millbrae, California Millbrae estate (1869–1954), image from c. 1895. Darius Ogden Mills (September 25, 1825 – January 3, 1910) was a prominent American banker and philanthropist. For a time, he was California's wealthiest ...
Ogden Mills (financier) (1856–1929), American businessman, father of Ogden L. Mills Ogden L. Mills (1884–1937), American Secretary of the Treasury and Congressman Topics referred to by the same term
Mills Mansion: 1832 (renovated c. 1895) Colonial (1792 original) Greek Revival (1832 replacement) Beaux-Arts (1895 renovation) McKim, Mead, and White (1890s renovation) Staatsburg: Today, located within Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park [46] more images: Lyndhurst: 1838: Gothic Revival: Alexander Jackson Davis: Tarrytown
The Ogden Mills House was designed by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt and overlooked Central Park.It was constructed at the corner of East 69th Street and Park Avenue in the Upper East Side for Ogden Mills between 1885 and 1887.
The bank reopened on October 2, 1875, with $2 million in gold coin on hand and Mills again president. [12] When the San Francisco clearing house was established in 1876, the city's leading banks, in order of importance, were the Bank of California, the Nevada Bank (opened in 1875 with McLane as president), J. & W. Seligman & Co. forerunners of ...