Ogden Mills Reid

Ogden Mills Reid (May 16, 1882 – January 3, 1947)

Early life Reid was born on May 16, 1882, in Manhattan. He was the son of Elisabeth (née Mills) Reid (1857–1931) and Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912), the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain and France and 1892 Republican vice presidential candidate. His sister was Jean Templeton Reid, who married Sir John Hubert Ward, the son of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, in 1908.

His maternal grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills, at one time the richest man in California, and his uncle was Ogden Mills, a prominent New York Society man. Through his uncle, he was a cousin of twins Gladys Livingston Mills, the thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who married Henry Carnegie Phipps and Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard, who married Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, as well as Ogden Livingston Mills, the 50th Secretary of the Treasury.

He attended the Browning School in New York, the University of Bonn in Germany, and graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1904 and a law degree in 1907.

Career Following his graduation from Yale Law School, he spent a year abroad as secretary to his father when he was the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The paper was founded in 1841 by Horace Greeley. In 1932, the combined paper became profitable, and remained profitable until Reid's death in 1947. Reid married Helen Miles Rogers at the Racine College Chapel in Racine, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Benjamin Talbot Rogers, a prominent Wisconsin merchant, and his wife Sarah Louise Johnson. Helen graduated from Barnard College in 1903 Together, they were the parents of:

Whitelaw Reid (1913–2009), who also served as president and chairman of the Herald Tribune. Elisabeth Reid (1915–1924), who died in childhood.

Upon his mother's death in 1931, Reid inherited Camp Wild Air and a three-million-dollar trust fund. His funeral was held at St. Thomas Church in New York and he was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York. Following his death, his widow took over as president of the New-York Tribune. His estate was valued at $9,478,112 ($ in ), of which $5,780,702 ($ in ) was given to the Reid Foundation, a non-taxable charitable foundation.

Honors and awards Reid was honored by the French government with the rank of Officer in the Legion of Honour, and by the Belgian government with the honor of Commander of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium. In 1931, when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the United States for an operation, he stayed at Ophir Hall, Reid's Renaissance Revival residence in Purchase, New York, designed by Stanford White, with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted, and built in 1892 as a dwelling for his father.