Maturin Livingston Jr. (March 4, 1816 – November 29, 1888), an American merchant who was a member of the prominent
Livingston family .
[1]
Early life
The
Livingston mansion , the country home of the Mills family.
Livingston was born on March 4, 1816, in
Staatsburg, New York .
[2] He was the son of
Maturin Livingston (1769–1847) and
Margaret (née Lewis) Livingston (1780–1860). He was one of twelve children,
[3] including:
Morgan Lewis ;
[4] Gertrude Laura;
[5] Julia;
[6]
[7] Alfred; Mortimer;
[4]
[8]
[9] Susan Mary;
[4]
Robert James Livingston ;
[1] Henry Beekman;
[1] and
Angelica , who married
Alexander Hamilton, Jr.
[10]
[11]
His paternal grandparents were Robert James Livingston and Susanna (née Smith) Livingston, sister of Chief Justice
William Smith and daughter of Judge
William Smith .
[12] His mother was the only daughter and sole heiress of his maternal grandparents,
New York Governor
Morgan Lewis and
Gertrude (née Livingston) Lewis . His mother was also the niece of Chancellor
Robert Livingston and the granddaughter of Judge
Robert R. Livingston .
[1]
Career
Livingston was engaged in mercantile business in New York as a young man.
[13]
In 1844, upon the death of his grandfather, his parents inherited Gov. Lewis's stately home
Staatsburgh House in
Staatsburg ,
Dutchess County, New York .
[14] Later, Livingston himself inherited the mansion which he later passed down to his younger daughter Ruth, which the couple used as a summer home and where they raised horses.
[1]
Society life
Livingston and his wife were both prominent in society.
[15] In 1892, a few years after his death, his widow was included in
Ward McAllister 's "
Four Hundred ", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in
The New York Times .
[16]
[17] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.
[18]
Personal life
Portrait of his daughter
Ruth Livingston Mills , by Francois Glamony
On November 12, 1852, Livingston was married to
Ruth Baylies (1827–1918),
[19] the daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (née Payson) Baylies from
Taunton, Massachusetts .
[20] Ruth's nephew was
Edmund Lincoln Baylies Jr. , the lawyer and prominent society member.
[1] Together, they were the parents of eight children, including two twin daughters who were the only children to survive their parents:
[21]
Livingston died at the residence of his son-in-law at 2
East 69th Street in
New York City on November 29, 1888.
[13] In 1916, his widow's address was listed at 4 East 69th Street in New York.
[24]
Descendants
Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of two granddaughters,
[25] Mary Augusta Cavendish-Bentinck (1881–1913) and Ruth Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck (1883–1978).
[26]
[27]
Through his daughter Ruth, he was the grandfather of
Gladys Livingston Mills (1883–1970), who married
Henry Carnegie Phipps ;
[28]
Jane Beatrice Mills (1883–1972), who married
Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard ;
[29] and
Ogden Livingston Mills (1884–1937),
[30]
[31] who would become the 50th
United States Secretary of the Treasury ,
[32] and who married Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford in 1911. After their divorce in 1919, he married Dorothy Randolph Fell, former wife of the banker John R. Fell, in 1924.
[33]
[34]
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"Ogden Mills Dies At His Home Here. Financier Is the Victim of Pneumonia After Three Weeks Illness. He Was 72 Years Old. Active in Many Philanthropies and Long a Leader in Social Affairs. A Native of California. Interested in Racing" .
New York Times . January 29, 1929. Retrieved 2013-12-18 . Ogden Mills financier and father of Ogden L. Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury, died at 1:30 A.M. today at his home, 2 East Sixty-ninth Street, following an illness of more than three weeks. ...
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Social Register, New York . Social Register Association. 1916. p. 406. Retrieved 1 June 2018 .
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"THE BENTINCKS.; THE LATE DUKE OF PORTLAND AND HIS FAMILY" .
The New York Times . 25 December 1879. Retrieved 24 February 2017 .
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"G. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK DEAD | Wife Was Elizabeth Livingston, Sister of Mrs. Ogden Mills" .
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Alden Whitman (October 20, 1970).
"Mrs. H.C. Phipps, Leader in Horse Racing, Dies; Wheatley Stable Owner, 87, Was Noted for Breeding of Winning Thoroughbreds" .
New York Times . Retrieved 2015-04-28 . Mrs. Gladys Mills Phipps, widow of Henry Carnegie Phipps and celebrated for many years as the First Lady of the Turf, died yesterday after a short illness at Spring Hill, her Westbury, L. I., estate. The New York and Palm Beach society leader and owner of Wheatley Stable was 87 years old.
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"Lady Granard, Daughter Of Ogden Mills, Dies at 88" .
New York Times . 3 February 1972. Retrieved 18 December 2013 .
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"MRS. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK | Former Elizabeth Livingston, a Member of Noted N.Y. Family" .
The New York Times . 7 November 1943. p. 56. Retrieved 24 February 2017 .
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"LARGE AMERICAN DOWRIES" .
The New York Times . 19 November 1893. p. 12. Retrieved 24 February 2017 .
^ Times, Special To The New York (13 February 1932).
"MILLS TAKES OATH AS TREASURY HEAD; Ambassador Mellon and Assistant Secretary Ballantine Are Sworn In at the Same Time. CROWD ATTENDS CEREMONY Hoover, in Accepting Mellon's Formal Resignation, Commends His Long Public Service" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 25 February 2017 .
^ Times, Special To The New York (3 September 1924).
"Congressman Ogden L. Mills Is Wed to Mrs. Dorothy R. Fell by Peace Justice" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 25 February 2017 .
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"Ogden Mills Dies Suddenly At 53. Former Secretary of Treasury Is Stricken by Heart Attack in His Home Here" .
New York Times . October 12, 1937. Retrieved 2013-12-18 . Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary of the Treasury and a Republican party leader often suggested as a possible Presidential nominee, died suddenly yesterday of a heart attack in his home at 2 East Sixtyninth Street.
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