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Mills, Ogden, 1856-1929 print view role Collector dates 1856-1929 city New York City state NY other cities Sacramento, CA; Cambridge, MA; Newport, RI; Staatsburgh, NY; Paris, France; Millbrae, CA; sex M historical notes Collector of art and decorative art, businessman, and philanthropist, Mills collected French Antiques, Louis XIV, XV and XVI furnishings. Mills was the director of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company, the City and Suburban Homes Company, the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, of which he was vice president; president of Mills Inc., the New York Central Railroad, the Niagara Falls Power Company, the North Atlantic Steamship Company, the Oriental Consolidated Mining Company, the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company, the St. Maurice Lumber Company and the Southern Pacific Company. He was trustee of the United States Trust Company of New York, president and director of the Virginia & Truckee Railway and a director of the West Shore Railroad Company. He was a member of the Union, University, Metropolitan, Racquet can Tennis, Brook, Automobile, Links, and Turf and Field Clubs, and of the Pacific Union Club of San Francisco. decades of activity 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 website http://www.staatsburgh.org updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Library of Congress Manuscript Division Reid family papers , 1795 - 1970 (bulk 1869 - 1970 ) see details... Brown University, John Hay Archives John Hay Library John Hay (b. 1915) papers see details... Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives Edwin Montefiore Borchard papers, 1910-1950 (inclusive). see details... see also: Mills, Ruth Livingston «  back