MITCHELL
MITCHELL
MITCHELL, David Bradie, governor of Geor-
gia, was born in Scotland, Oct. 22, 1766. His
uncle, Dr. David Bradie of Savannah, Ga., was
taken prisoner by the British at the capture of
Savannah, 1778, an<l died while confined on the
prison sliip. He was made his uncle's heir under
his will and took possession of the property in
Savannah in 1783, when only seventeen years of
.age. He studied law under Gov. William Ste-
phens; was clerk of the committee to revise the
criminal code; solicitor-general of the state, 1795-
90; a representative from Savannah in the Geor-
gia legislature in 1790; major-general of militia,
1804-09, and governor of the state, 1809-11 and
1815-17. He resigned in 1817 to accept the ap-
pointment from President Monroe of agent to the
Creek Indians, and on Jan. 22, 1818, he concluded
a treaty at the Creek agency. The state legisla-
ture placed a memorial slab in the state capitol,
and subsequently named a county in his honor.
He died at Milledgeville, Ga., April 22, 1837.
MITCHELL, Donald Grant, author, was born in Norwicli, Conn., April 12. 1822; son of Alfred and Lucretia (Woodbridge) Mitchell, and grand- son of the Hon. Steplien Mix Mitchell. His father (born 1790, died 1831), was graduated from Yale in 1809. and was a Congregational minister in Norwich, Conn. Donald attended
the academy at Ell- ington, Conn., kept by Judge John Hall, and was graduated from Yale in 1841. He was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, and was elected to deliver the farewell class ad- dress. His health be- ing feeble, he worked on the (so-called) Woodbridge farm of his maternal grand- father, in Salem, Conn., 1841-44, and thus acquired a taste for agriculture. He won a silver medal from the New York Agricultural society for plans of farm buildings, and subse- quently became connected with the Albany Cul- tivator (now the Country Oentleman), as foreign correspondent. He spent two years (1844-46) in travel on the continent and in England, gather- ing material for his first book. "Fresh Glean- ings." Returning to America in the latter part of 1846, he spent some months in travel through the Southern states and in Washington. In the winter of 1847-48 he entered upon the study of law in a New York oflRce. but unable to bear the confinement involved, he sailed again for
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Europe shortly after the outbreak of the revolu-
tion of 1848; his second book, "The Battle Sum-
mer," relates to this period. In 1849-50 he pul>-
lished, anonymously., "The Lorgnette " — a book
of social studies in satirical vein. In May, 1853,
he was apiK)inted by President Pierce, U.S. consul
at Venice, and before leaving for his jjost he
married. May 31, 1853, Mary F., daughter of
William B. Pringle of Charleston, S.C. On their
return in 1855 they established a home on a farm
near New Haven, which they called " Edge-
wood," and where Mrs. Mitchell died Dec. 5, 1901.
Mr. Mitchell was elected a member of the
council of Yale art school in 1865; was judge of
industrial art at the Centennial exhibition of
1876, and U.S. commis-sioner to the Paris exhibi-
tion of 1878. He was lecturer on Engli.sh litera-
ture at Yale university, 1884-85, and the honorary
degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by that
institution in 1878. He edited, in connection
with Dr. Holmes, the Atlantic Almanac in Boston,
1868-69, and later was connected editorially with
the Hearth and Home in New York. He is the
author of: Fresh Gleanings, or a New Sheaf from
the Old Field of Continental Europe (1847); The
Battle Summer (1849); The Lorgnette, or Studies
of the Totvn by an Opera Ooer (2 vols., 1850);
Tlie Reveries of a Bacfielor (1850) — the first
chapter having been originally published in the
Southern Literary Messenger under the title, A
Bachelor's Reverie (1849):— -JOream Life (1851);
My Farm of Edgewood (1863); Seven Stories with
Basement and Attic (1864); Wet Days at Edge-
wood (1865); Dr. Johns: Being a Narrative of
Certain Events in the Life of a Congregational
Minister of Connecticut (1866); Rural Studies
(1867); About Old Story Tellers (1877); Bound
Together, which includes Titian and His Times, a
lecture delivered before Yale Art school (1884);
English Ixinds, Letters and Kings (4 vols., 1897);
and American Lands and Letters (2 vols., 1897-
99). He also compiled with his brother Louis an
elaborate genealogy of the Woodbridge Family
(1883), and Daniel Tyler, a memorial volume
( 1883) . Many of his earlier books were published
under the pen name " Ik Marvel."
MITCHELL, Edward Gushing, educator, was born in East Bridge water, Mass., Sept. 20, 1829; son of Sylvanus E. and Lucia (Whitman) Mitchell, and grandson of Judge Nahum Mitchell and of Judge Ezekiel Whitman. He attended Yarmouth academy. Maine, and was graduated from Water- ville college in 1849: from the Newton Theological institution in 1853. and was resident graduate, 1853-54. He was ordained to the Baptist min- istry. July 13. 1854: was pastor at Calais, Maine, 1854-56: at Brockport. N.Y., 1857-58, and at Rockford, 111., 1858-63. He was professor of
