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Eugenia Mitchell family papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 8438

Scope and content

Bound volume of letters on her retirement, September 30, 1977. Photographs of Eugenia at work. Also family papers and genealogies. Printed pictures of John Mitchell and Samuel Mitchell, with biographical information from History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, New York, by H. B. Peirce and D. Hamilton Hurd, 1879.

Scope and content

Letter from Anna Botsford Comstock, Sept. 17, 1904 about family concerns to "Mary."

Dates

1879-1977.

Creator

Mitchell, Eugenia, 1914-2011. (Person)
Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930 (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Eugenia Mitchell lived in the house her father built on land that was in the family for many generations, going from Mitchell Street to Maple Avenue in Ithaca. She attended Cornell in 1933-1934 in the College of Agriculture, and worked at the university for 40 years, finally in the Department of Communications in the College of Agriculture.