Background
Mills, Weymer Jay was born on August 26, 1880 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Mortimer and Lilly Wilcox (O’Reilly) Mills.
Mills, Weymer Jay was born on August 26, 1880 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Mortimer and Lilly Wilcox (O’Reilly) Mills.
Educated by private tutors.
Editor: Some of the Papers of Philip Freneau, an ancestor, 1900. Glimpses of Colonial Society and Life at Princeton College by One of the Class of 1763. The Letters of William Paterson, Governor of New Jersey, to John Macpherson, Aaron Burr, and Henry Lee, Junior, 1903.
Family Papers Relating to New York’s Early Social History.
Author: Historic Houses of New Jersey, 1902. Through the Gates of Old Romance, 1903.
Caroline of Courtland Street (novel), 1905. The Ghosts of Their Ancestors, 1906.
The Van Rensselaers of Old Manhattan.
The Girl I Left Behind Maine, 1910. Old Loves, 1912; The Eighteenth Century in Silhouette (Oxford Press). Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Pictures.
The Connoisseur, 1914.
Editor of decorations, Vogue Magazine, 1920-1923. Home: Giardino Vecchio, 6 Via della Liggia, Quarto dei Mille, Genoa, Italy.
Castello Plars, Merano, Italy. Old Sun House, Cheyne Row, London, Engineering
Married Dorothy, niece Sir Herbert Warren.