Donald G. Mitchell (1822-1908)

Dunn, Waldo H. The Life of Donald G. Mitchell, "Ik Marvel." New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922. Mitchell was a much-published writer of romantic rural essays, a serious agronomist, and sometime European traveler, newspaper reporter, and consul at Liverpool and Venice. He was also an arborist and landscape designer. His designs for New Haven parks and other papers are at the NHCHS. See more in Journal of the NHCHS 16(September, 1967)3:40-48.