Darius Ogden Mills
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Darius Ogden Mills was a prominent American banker and philanthropist. For a time, he was California's wealthiest citizen. He was also a co-founder of General Electric.
Darius Ogden Mills
The mausoleum of Darius Ogden Mills, in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Millbrae, California
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Millbrae is a city in northern San Mateo County, California, United States. To the northeast is San Francisco International Airport; San Bruno is to the northwest, and Burlingame is to the southeast.
Darius Ogden Mills
…a trustee of the Carnegie Institution from 1902 to 1909. Mills bought part of Rancho Buri Buri from José de la Cruz Sánchez and built an estate named Millbrae (also known as the Mills estate and the Mills mansion), which gave its name to the present town that grew up around it. The estate took three years to…
View of Millbrae, facing southeast from Junipero Serra Park, with SFO runways, the Westin SFO, and Millbrae station visible behind the trees on the left, Coyote Point Recreation Area and the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge visible behind them, The Magnolia of Millbrae, Mills-Peninsula Medical Center visible near the center of the image, and the Santa Cruz Mountains and the suburbs in their foothills on the right.