| Name |
Wesley Clair "Robin" Mitchell |
| Nickname |
Robin |
| Born |
5 Aug 1874 |
Rushville, Schuyler, IL, USA  |
| Also known as |
Robin Mitchell |
 Census - 1880 |
24-25 Jun 1880 |
Kinmundy, Marion, IL, USA [1] |
- 1880 United States Federal Census, Illinois, Marion, Kinmundy, District 110
24 & 25 Jun 1880, Dwelling 317, Family 328
Mitchell, J. W., w, m, 43, m, physcian, ME, ME, ME -- (indexed as J. W. Mitchel)
Mitchell, L. Medora, w, f, 33, wife, m, keeps house, IL, MA, NY -- (indexed as L. Maserva Mitchel)
Mitchell, L. Beulah, w, f, 7, daughter, at home, IL, ME, IL -- (indexed as L. Buelah Mitchel)
Mitchell, Wesley C., w, m, 5, son, at home, IL, ME, IL -- (indexed as Wesly C. Mitchel)
Mitchell, Eunice, w, f, 4, daughter, at home, IL, ME, IL -- (indexed as Llara E. Mitchel)
Mitchell, Leonard, w, m, 2, son, at home, IL, ME, IL -- (indexed as Leonard M. Mitchel)
Mitchell, Roy., w, m, 1m, son, at home, IL, ME, IL -- (indexed as Roy F. Mitchel)
Maggy Allen, w, f, 18, servant, house servant, IL, OH, IL
William Hensley, w, m, 53, farming, IL, VA, KY
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| Census - 1920 |
5 or 6 Jan 1920 |
Manhattan, New York, NY, USA [2] |
| 15 Waverly Place |
- 1920 United States Federal Census, New York, New York, Manhattan Assembly District 10, District 715
5 or 6 Jan 1920, 15 Waverly Place, Dwelling 31, Family 36
Mitchell, Wesley, head, r, m, w, 45, m, IL, ME, IL, professor, school, w
Mitchell, Lucy, wife, f, w, m, IL, VT, VT --- (indexed as Ineie Mitchell)
Mitchell, Jack, son, m, w, 6, s, NY, IL, IL
Mitchell, Sprague, son, m, w, 4, s, NY, IL, IL
Mitchell, Marion, daughter, f, w, 2 11/12, s, NY, IL, IL
Mitchell, Arnold, son, m, w, 1 0/12, s, NY, IL, IL
Hannah Cotter, maid, f, w, 22, s, Ireland, Ireland, Ireland, maid, private family
Mollie Cotter, maid, f, w, 26, s, Ireland, Ireland, Ireland, maid, private family
Lizzie O'connell, maid, f, w, 22, s, Ireland, Ireland, Ireland, maid, private family
Mary Fatz, nurse, f, w, 38, wid, NY, NY, NY, nurse, private family
Stella Clara, nurse, f, w, 31, wid, IA, American, American, nurse, private family (probably Stella Clark)
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| Residence |
Oct 1948 |
Stamford, Fairfield Co., CT, USA |
| Westover Road |
| Died |
29 Oct 1948 |
New York, New York, NY, USA, New York Hospital |
| Buried |
29 Oct 1948 |
Middle Village, Queens, NY, USA, Fresh Pond Crematory [3] |
- Lucy Sprague writing about her husband, Wesley Clair Mitchell:
"He and I had often said we hoped we might die at the same time. Long ago, Jessie Stanton had told me of his remark to her when the three of us were planning to fly back from Biloxi and the weather make a flight doubtful. Robin said to her, 'I don't mind the risk if Lucy and I are together. If anything should happen to Lucy, I should not care to go on.' Since he died first, I fulfilled my promise to him (he had make the same promise to me) to have his body cremated. This happened before Jack or Arnold arrived."
|
| Obituary |
30 Oct 1948 [4] |
| New York Times |
- DR. WESLEY CLAIR MITCHELL Conway
DR. W. C. MITCHELL, ECONOMIST 74, DIES
Columbia Professor Emeritus, Widely Known in Field, Served on Government Boards
Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, internationally known economist and professor emeritus at Columbia University, who served on many important government boards, died yesterday of a coronary thrombosis in New York Hospital. His age was 74.
While teaching, writing and doing extensive research in economics, Dr. Mitchell found time for long and distinguished. public service.
In 1929 President Hoover appointed him chairman of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends, whose personnel included fifty leading authorities and hundreds of assistants in the field of social research. For three years the committee studied social trends of American life from the beginning of the century and issued a 1,600-page report that was unique in the country's history, attempting to supply bases of policies in the nation's future development.
This work had hardly been completed when in 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Dr. Mitchell a member of the National Planning Board, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, and in 1934-35 Dr. Mitchell served on the National Resources Board.
Reported on Cost of Living
During the second World War, criticism of the consumers' price index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, then known as the cost-of-living index, led to an investigation by a committee headed by Dr. Mitchell. His report for the President's Committee on the Cost of Living did much to end the dispute.
In 1913 he had written a treatise, "Business Cycles," which aroused much interest among economists; in 1927 he published "Business Cycles, the Problem and Its Setting," and in his most recent book returned to the same field, "Measuring Business Cycles."
Dr. Mitchell also was an authority on the theory and history of money, general economic theory, the history of economic doctrines, the science of index numbers and economic measurement at large.
Throughout his career, he sought to replace untested generalizations of economics with a verified knowledge. His work spurred quantitative research in this country and abroad on national income, prices, investment, money markets and business cycles.
At his death, he was a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of s Economic Research and of its board of directors. He had been one of the founders of the organization and until his retirement he had served as its director of research.
Thirty Years at Columbia
After thirty years' service, he retired in 1944 from the faculty of Columbia University, becoming professor emeritus of economics.
He was born in Rushville, Ill., on Aug. 5, 1874, and, while a student at the University of Chicago, came under the influence of John Dewey and Thorstein Veblen. After receiving the Ph.D. degree) there in 1899, he served for a year in the Census Bureau in Washington, and then began his long teaching career.
Dr. Mitchell had lectured at the University of Chicago, the University of California and Harvard, and in 1930-31 was George Eastman visiting professor at Oxford University. In 1935 he was Messenger Lecturer at Cornell University. From all parts of the world students came to hear his lectures at. Columbia University on "Types of Economic Theory" and "Business, Cycles."
He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and the University of Paris, as well as from leading American institutions. In 1947 the American Economic Association awarded him its Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in the fields of Economics and Social Sciences. The National Institute of Social Sciences also had recognized his work by awarding him a gold medal.
In Many Learned Societies
Dr. Mitchell belonged to many learned groups, including the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Institute of Statistics. He was also a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He had served as president of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, the Econometric Society, the Academy of Political Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
For many years Dr. Mitchell was on the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council, and he had been associated with many other educational, scientific and public enterprises, including the New School for Social Research, the Bureau of Educational Experiments, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Twentieth Century Fund and the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics.
Recently Dr. Mitchell had lived in Westover Road, Stamford, Conn., but for many years earlier he had made his home here. He was a member of the Century Association in New York; the Cosmos Club in Washington, D. C.; the Faculty Club at Berkeley, Calif., and the Men's Faculty Club at Columbia University.
He leaves his wife, the former Lucy Sprague; a daughter, Marion; three sons, John, Sprague and Arnold; four brothers, James and Lucius of Berkeley, and Roy and Leonard of Chicago; two sisters, Mrs. Beulah Clute arid Mrs. Eunice Lehmas, both of Berkeley, and seven grandchildren.
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New York Times (1857-Current file)
New York, New York
30 Oct 1948
ancestry.com
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| Notes |
- I have copy of his certified death certificate. Provided by Greg Mitchell.
New York, State Census, 1915
Wesley Mitchell
Birth: abt 1875, United States
Age: 40
Residence Place: New York, New York
Relationship: Head
Assembly District: 25
House Number: 37 West 10th street
Line Number: 6
Page Number: 33
Household Members:
Wesley Mitchell, 40, professor
Lucy Mitchell, wife, 34
John Mitchell, son, 2
Sprayue Mitchell, son, 2/12
Mollie Carter, servant, 23, Ireland, waitress
Jane Dupuy, servant, 20, France, child nurse
Rnelie Dupuy, servant, 38, France, housekeeper
New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948
Name: Wesley Mitchell
Birth Year: abt 1874
Age: 74
Death Date: 29 Oct 1948
Death Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
Certificate Number: 23779
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Wesley Clair Mitchell
15 Washington Square, Manhattan, New York, New York
Age: 44
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1874
Prof of Economics, Columbia Univ
Height: Medium, Build: Medium, Eyes: blue, Hair: Brown
Nearest relative: Lucy Sprague Mitchell, 15 Washington Sq., New York
Draft Board: 153 at 59 Washington Sq., N.Y.C., Sep 12, 1918
5 Mar 2014
From Lucy Sprague Mitchell, The Making of a Modern Woman, by Joyce Antler, Yale University Press, 1987, page 119:
"The Berkeley years were extremely important to Wesley Mitchell's own professional development. The second of seven children of John Wesley Mitchell, a New England born physician, and Lucy Medora McClellan, daughter of a mid-Western farmer, Mitchell had spent his childhood years in Illinois. John and Lucy were affectionate and sympathetic parents, but the family's recurrent economic crises, caused by his father's frequent illnesses, had placed a great strain on the children, particularly Wesley, the oldest son. Through much scrimping and saving, the family managed to send Wesley off to the new University of Chicago in 1892; he became one of its Chicago entrants--the "aborigines," as they called themselves."
Source: "Two Lives." Entered the University of Chicago, 1898, first year school open.
Unable to find him or family in the 1930 and 1940 US Census.
Family burials, per Gregory Mitchell - November 2006: "W.C. Mitchell--I have no idea."
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| Person ID |
I252 |
AC-Family |
| Last Modified |
3 Jan 2018 |
| Family / Spouse |
Lucy Sprague, b. 3 Jul 1878, Chicago, Cook, IL, USA , d. 15 Oct 1967, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, CA, USA (Age 89 years) |
| Married |
8 May 1912 |
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, Swedenborgian Church |
- I have a certified copy of their marriage license. Provided by Greg Mitchell.
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MARRIAGE LICENSE, 18056
State of California.
City and County of San Francisco
THESE PRESENTS are to authorize and license any Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice of the District Court of Appeals, Judge of the Superior Court, Judge of the Police Court, Justice of the Peace, City Recorder, Priest or Minister of the gospel, of any denomination, to solemnize, within said County, the marriage of WESLEY CLAIR MITCHELL, (white) aged 37 years and past, resident of Berkeley, County of Alameda, State of California, and LUCY SPRAGUE (white) aged 33 years and past, resident of Berkeley, County of Alameda, State of California, said parties being of sufficient age to be capable of contracting marriage as appears by affidavit or record in my office.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Superior Court of said County, this 3rd day of May, A.D. 1912.
(Seal) H.I, MULCREVY, County Clerk, and ex-officio Clerk of the Superior Court in and for said City and County of San Francisco.
By FRANK DUNN, Deputy County, Clerk,
State of California,)
City and County of San Francisco)
THIS CERTIFIES THAT
WESLEY CLAIR MITCHELL and LUCY SPRAGUE
the parties in the above license were joined in marriage by me on the 8th day of May, A.D. 1912, in said City and County and State, that Mary Sprague Miller, a resident of Berkeley, County of Alameda, State of California, and Albert L. Sprague, a resident of Chicago, County of _ State of Illinois, were presented witnesses of said ceremony,
Witnesses
Name, MARY SPRAGUE MILLER, No. 2420 Ridge Road, Berkeley,
Name, ALBERT L. SPRAGUE, 1130 Lake Street, Chicago, Ill,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this Eighth day of May, A.D. 1912
JOS. WORCESTER, Minister,
Recorded at the request of J. Worcester.
May 11, 1912.
No. M 4710.
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| Children |
| + | 1. John McClellan "Jack" Mitchell, b. Jul 1913, New York, New York, NY, USA , d. 1978 (Age ~ 64 years) [Adopted] |
| + | 2. Sprague Mitchell, b. 28 Mar 1915, New York, New York, NY, USA , d. 6 Jul 1987, Greensboro, Orleans, VT, USA (Age 72 years) |
| | 3. Marion Mitchell, b. 2 Feb 1917, d. 26 Sep 1958, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA (Age 41 years) [Adopted] |
| + | 4. Arnold Mitchell, b. 18 Feb 1918, New York, New York, NY, USA , d. 17 Jul 1985, San Mateo, San Mateo, CA, USA (Age 67 years) |
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| Last Modified |
3 Jan 2018 |
| Family ID |
F15 |
Family Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1874 - 1948 (74 years)
: Address
: Location
: City/Town
: County/Shire
: State/Province
: Country
: Not Set
1847 - 1922 (75 years)
