Hugh Docherty Mitchell

Hugh Docherty Mitchell was born in 1882 in Arbroath, Scotland. According to his son, Harold Mitchell, he was from Arbroath, Scotland, and arrived in the United States about 1904, He returned to Scotland about 1906 where he met and married his wife, Alice Milne and soon returned to America. He started employment at Cornell University ca. 1913. He died in Ithaca, NY in 1952. Ithaca City directories indicate that he was employed as a mason or foreman at Cornell from 1921 until his death. An obituary was published in the Ithaca Journal on March 28, 1952, page 5, col 7.

Dates are taken from the gravestone in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Tompkins County, NY.

He and his wife acquired 237 Forest Home Dr, Ithaca in 1920 and he lived there until his death. Prior to that he built and lived in the original structure of the residence now known as 131 Judd Falls Road. See https://tompkins.historyforge.net/buildings/8192

See https://tompkins.historyforge.net/people/189842 for his brother, William C. Mitchell, a stone cutter and mason. William and his first wife, Catherine, emigrated to Ithaca about the same time as Hugh and lived from 1915 until his death in 1965 at the eastern end of Forest Home Drive, where he built the houses now known as 332, 336, and 340 Forest Home Dr. See https://tompkins.historyforge.net/buildings/8321