- He had three children with his wife, Beatrice: son, William C. de Mille; son, Cecil B. DeMille; and daughter, Agnes Beatrice (born 1891; died 1895), who died of spinal meningitis.
- He died of typhoid fever at 4 p.m. of February 9, 1893, at his home in Pompton, NJ. His illness lasted about ten days.
- He was the son of Margaret Mutter Blount (Hoyt) and William Edward deMille. He had English, German, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry.
- He was a businessman and Georgist.
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