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About Elisabeth Mills Reid
Elisabeth Mills Reid was an American philanthropist. Mills was the daughter of Darius Ogden Mills, a wealthy banker and financier who made his initial fortune during the California gold rush. She was born in New York City and raised between northern California and the Hudson Valley in New York. She married the journalist Whitelaw Reid in 1881, with whom she had two children, Ogden Mills Reid and Jean Templeton Ward. Reid and her family lived at 451 Madison Avenue in New York City, in Paris where Whitelaw was the United States Minister to France, and in London where he was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Elisabeth founded the American Girls' Club in Paris during her time there, and she was a popular society hostess in London. During her life, Reid was an active philanthropist and a volunteer organizer with the American Red Cross.
Everything about Elisabeth Mills Reid →- Occupation
- philanthropist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1858, January 6, 1858
- Died
- 1931, April 30, 1931