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...take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into the U. S. Capitol as one of its two most illustrious citizens...
TIME of May 11, just arrived here and welcome as always, has this in reference to the death of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid...
...cause of truth, I offer a comment on a sentence about Mrs. Whitelaw Reid in TIME...
When the S.S. Leviathan docked at Cherbourg fortnight ago, the most distinguished member of its passenger list had contracted a slight cold. She was Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who had just turned over her great Ophir Hall at Purchase, N. Y., to Siarn's visiting King (TIME, April 20. et seq.), had sailed away to spend her seventy-third spring in France...
...that starts timocratic dynasties. With a background of intelligence and wealth, Elisabeth Mills was destined to become the financial and gracious helpmate of a great diplomat and an eminent public benefactress. The year 1881 marked the first milestone for both elements in her conspicuous career. Aged 23, she married Whitelaw Reid, potent editor of the New York Tribune. The same year she helped organize the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross. Her philanthropic apprenticeship had been served in assisting her father with his famed Mills Hotels for poor folk and his nursing school at Bellevue Hospital, New York...