Here's some stuff I put together years ago on Darius Ogden Mills. I don't think this mailing list allows italics or my other formatting. I've expanded some of my references and put titles in all caps. I'm sure there's a lot more information out there about him. Try some California Who's Who type books. Helen Ullmann Darius Ogden Mills, son of James and Hannah (Ogden) Mills of North Salem, Westchester Co., N.Y. (biog. of son Ogden, NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 60:255, hereafter "biog." or NYGRB; a correction of his name appears at 61:92) was born 25 September 1825 (The Historical Company, PROMINENT FAMILIES OF NEW YORK [New York, 1897], p. 405; J. Thomas Scharf, HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK [1886], 1:513). He died 4 January 1910 (Heidgerd Collection [at the New Paltz, NY, library and the Orange Co., NY, Genealogical Society). He was of Sacramento, Cal., when he married at Craig Hill, Irvington, Westchester Co., N.Y., 5 September 1854 (NEW YORK EVENING POST of 7 Sep. 1854, extracts at the New England Historic Genealogical Society [call no., old catalog, NYC/15/20, 14:93, but now online at www.NewEnglandAncestors.org; PROMINENT FAMILIES; N.Y. HERALD of 7 Sep. 1854) Jane Templeton Cunningham, daughter of James T. Cunningham (biog.; NY EVENING POSTof 7 Sep. 1854). James Mills moved from Dutchess Co. to New Salem, Westchester Co., N.Y., where he was "a large landholder, supervisor of the town, postmaster and justice of the peace. His death occurred in 1841. He had six sons and one daughter" (PROMINENT FAMILIES). The daughter Adeline married 20 August 1857 Ansel Ives Easton, son of Samuel and Fanny (Ives) Easton. Ansel died in San Francisco 22 August 1868 and Adeline was living in San Mateo in 1898 (William Starr Easton, DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH EASTON, HARTFORD, CONN., 1636-1899 [St. Paul, Minn., 1899], p. 111). According to the Edward C. Mills Collection at the Ohio Historical Society (1:412), James Mills was the son of James and CC (Boyce) Mills of Jamaica, L.I., Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., and Kortright, Delaware Co., N.Y. James, Jr., had children named William O., James, George, Niles, Darius Ogden, Edgar and Adeline. His brother Henry settled at Rhinebeck, brother Benoni lived at Kortright and brother Lewis died intestate (see Delaware Co. deeds). However, Scharf seems to think James, Jr., was from the North of England, but this was probably an assumption that he descended from George 1 Mills of Jamaica, N.Y. Hannah Ogden was born in N.Y. in 1796 and died in 1850; James died in 1842, a landholder and justice of the peace. His son Niles Easton Mills was born in 1824 and married Helen Todd (query from Monica Mills Homer, 1079 N. Bella Vista Ave., Pasadena, CA 91107, in MILLS MUSINGS 3 [1997]:29, which adds another child, Maria). In 1841 Darius was a clerk in New York City but in 1847, at age 22, he became "cashier of a bank and partner in a business house" in Buffalo, N.Y. (PROMINENT FAMILIES). He went to California in 1849, was a merchant and banker. "He returned to NY in 1880 where he built the Mills Building at Broad and Wall Streets...." (?). He "established in Sacramento the financial institution of D.O. Mills & Co. In 1864, in association with other business men of San Francisco, he organized the Bank of California, of which he became president.... He retired permanently from active business on the Pacific coast in 1878" and moved to New York (PROMINENT FAMILIES). Children, surname Mills: i. Ogden Mills, b. Sacramento, Calif., in 1856; d. at his res. 2 East 69th St., NYC, 29 Jan. 1929; bur. at St. James' Church, Hyde Park 31 Jan. 1929; m. 11 Apr. 1882 Ruth Livingston, dau. Maturin Jr. and Ruth (Baylies) Livingston; a portrait is on the page facing his biog.; Harvard 1878; Maturin Livingston d. Thurs. night at New York at the res. of his son-in-law Mr. Ogden Mills in his 73rd y after a long illness, a citizen of Staatsburg (Losee, p. 160, from a paper of 7 Dec. 1888; NYGBR, 20:46). Ruth d. in Paris 13 Oct. 1920 (Heidgerd). See the biog. for more on his career and family. In 1914 he became a life member and benefactor of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYGBR, 45:196). He built "the fabulous Mills mansion in Staatsburgh" (DUTCHESS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY YEARBOOK, 68 [1983]:114). At least one child, Ogden Livingston Mills, b. Newport, R.I., 23 Aug. 1884 (NYGBR, 69:1) or 1883, d. 11 Oct. (NYGBR, 69:1) 1937 (DCHS Yearbook, 69[1984]:102); res. 2 E. 69th St., N.Y.C. (Heidgerd) ii. Elizabeth Mills, b. 1857 or 1858 (age at d.); d. at Saint Jean, Cap Ferrat, France 29 Apr. 1931 (NYGBR, 63:184); m. 26 Apr. 1881 (Ibid.) Whitelaw Reid, editor of the NEW YORK TRIBUNE and ambassador to the "Court of St. James" (biog.)