Life and Career
Born in Millbrae, California, he was the son of Jane Templeton Cunningham and her husband Darius Ogden Mills, a highly successful banker and investor who in 1910 left Ogden Mills and his sister an estate valued at $36,227,391. . As a result of his father's many corporate investments, Ogden Mills would serve on the Board of Directors of a number of companies including the New York Central Railroad.
Ogden Mills married Ruth T. Livingston, daughter of Maturin Livingston, Jr. and Ruth Baylies, granddaughter of Maturin Livingston and Margaret Lewis, great-granddaughter of Robert James Livingston and Susan Smith, great-great-granddaughter of James Livingston and Dutch American Marrietje Kierstede, and great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston, whose statue the State of New York put into the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C. as one of its two most illustrious citizens. She inherited the Livingston Mansion in Staatsburg, New York which the couple used as a summer home and where they raised horses. Ogden and Ruth Mills had twin daughters, Gladys and Beatrice, and a son, Ogden Livingston Mills, who would become the 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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