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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