[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the century they had spread to New York. James Mills settled in Dutchess County, and married Han-nah Ogden. Shortly afterwards he removed to North Salem, Westchester County, where he reared a family of six sons and one daughter. Of these, the fifth son, Darius Ogden Mills, was born on September 5, 1825. James Mills was for many years a leading man in the community, a considerable landholder, postmas-ter, justice of the peace, and engaged in various busi-ness enterprises. He finally bought a hotel and dock property in Sing Sing, and dieil there i'i 1841 — his widow surviving him nine years. His Sing Sing in-vestment, as well as some others in his later life, did not turn out fortunately; and thus, at the age of six-teen, D. O. Mills was left without any prospects in life, save what he could make for himself. He had, however, been carefully educated for a business career by his father, being sent to the best schools then attainable — first to the North Salem Academy, then to the Mount Pleasant Academy, at Sing Sing, which at that time ranked high among the educational institutions of the State. At seventeen he left the academy and set about supporting himself and making his way in the world. He secured a clerkship in New York. Here and in some work connected with the settlement of his father's small remaining estate he was occupied for the next few years. Finally his cousin, E. J.