Ogden Mills Reid

Ogden Mills Reid (May 16, 1882 – January 3, 1947)[1] was an American newspaper publisher who was president of the New York Herald Tribune.

[10] Through his uncle, he was a cousin of twins Gladys Livingston Mills, the thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who married Henry Carnegie Phipps and Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard, who married Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, as well as Ogden Livingston Mills, the 50th Secretary of the Treasury.

[1] Reid was a zealous defender of the freedom of the press, and was quoted in 1931 at a commencement address at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, as saying: There is a much more serious side to the problem of newspapers striving honestly to print all the news.

This strikes at the freedom of the press without which our country would fall to a par with Soviet Russia, where subsidized and rigorously controlled governmental organs publish only the favorable side of the picture.

[16][17] She was the daughter of Benjamin Talbot Rogers, a prominent Wisconsin merchant, and his wife Sarah Louise Johnson.

[16][19][20] Together, they were the parents of: Upon his mother's death in 1931, Reid inherited Camp Wild Air and a three-million-dollar trust fund.

In 1931, when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the United States for an operation, he stayed at Ophir Hall, Reid's Renaissance Revival residence in Purchase, New York, designed by Stanford White, with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted, and built in 1892 as a dwelling for his father.

Helen and Ogden Reid, 1920