Огден Миллс: Американдық кәсіпкер және жылқы шаруашылығының меценаты

American businessman

Ogden Mills (December 18, 1856 – January 29, 1929) was an American financier and Thoroughbred racehorse owner. His father was a highly successful banker and investor who, upon his death in 1910, left Ogden Mills and his sister, Elisabeth Mills, who married Whitelaw Reid an estate valued at $36,227,391. As a result of his father's many corporate investments, Ogden Mills served on the Board of Directors of a number of companies including the New York Central Railroad.

A member of The Jockey Club, Ogden Mills raced horses in the United States and maintained a racing stable in France in partnership with Lord Derby. Among their successes in that country, they won the 1928 Grand Prix de Paris with the colt Cri de Guerre, bred by Evremond de Saint Alary. On his death in 1929, Ogden Mills left to his daughter Beatrice, a resident of London, England, married to Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, his French racing stable and a home at 73 Rue de Varenne in Paris. That year, Beatrice led all French owners in purses earned. In 1926, Mills' daughter Gladys and son Ogden established Wheatley Stable, which became one of the preeminent racing and breeding operations in American racing history.

Like his father, Ogden Mills was involved in a number of charitable causes and the Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park encompasses their mansion at Staatsburg, New York, that is now Staatsburgh State Historic Site. Mills was instrumental in assisting the State of New York to erect a statue of Robert Livingston, his wife's great great great grandfather, into the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D. C., highlighting him as one of the state's two most illustrious citizens.

Through his eldest daughter, he was the grandfather of Barbara Phipps Janney and Ogden Phipps (1908–2002), and the great grandfather of Ogden Mills Phipps (1940–2016) and Cynthia Phipps, also major figures in horse racing.