Reid, Elisabeth Mills (1858–1931)
Reid, Elisabeth Mills (1858–1931)
American philanthropist. Born in New York, NY, Jan 6, 1858; died in Cap Ferrat, Nice, France, April 29, 1931; dau. of Darius Ogden Mills (California financier) and Jane Templeton (Cunningham) Mills (dau. of a prominent shipowner and shipbuilder); sister of Ogden Mills who was father of Ogden L. Mills, secretary of treasury; educated by governesses, at Mlle Vallette's School in Paris, and at Anna C. Brackett School in NY; m. Whitelaw Reid (editor and chief owner of New York Tribune and minister to France, 1889–92), April 26, 1881 (died 1912); children: Ogden Mills Reid (b. 1882, publisher of New York Tribune); Jean Reid (who m. Sir John Hubert Ward, equerry to England's Queen Alexandra of Denmark).
During Spanish-American War, was the acting head of the nursing division of American Red Cross; was also chair of American Red Cross in London during WWII; as a philanthropist, helped establish Dr. Trudeau's T.B. sanitarium and the D.O. Mills training school for nurses, both at Saranac Lake, New York.