Maggie Mitchell

Margaret Julia Mitchell[2] (June 2, 1832 – March 22, 1918) was an American actress, born in New York City.[3] She made her speaking debut as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she earned the greatest fame were Jane Eyre, Mignon, Little Barefoot, and Fanchon the Cricket.[4][5][6][7][8]

For the British artist and sculptor, see Maggie Mitchell (artist).

Maggie Mitchell
Born
Margaret Julia Mitchell

(1832-06-02)June 2, 1832[1]
New York City, New York
DiedMarch 22, 1918(1918-03-22) (aged 85)
New York City, New York
Maggie Mitchell, [ca. 1859–1870]. Carte de Visite Collection, Boston Public Library

Mitchell was at the outset of the Civil War a Confederate sympathizer, but later moderated her views. She reportedly danced on an American flag while performing in Montgomery, Alabama, but later denied doing so. Her southern sympathies, charismatic personality and profession made her a warm, close friend of John Wilkes Booth, but also earned her the admiration of Abraham Lincoln, who invited her to tea in the Executive Mansion and enjoyed her performances at Ford's Theatre.

Family

She was married to Henry Thomas Paddock (1836–1896), a Cleveland haberdasher who then became her manager, in 1868, and they had (i) a daughter, Fanchon Maria Paddock (1869–1940), who married Harry Paddock Mashey (1878–1960), and (ii) a son, Harry Mitchell Paddock (1872–1938). Maggie and Henry divorced twenty years later; and – on October 12, 1889, in Boston – she married her co-star Charles Abbott (stage name of Charles Abbott Mace; 1852–1927). She retired from the stage to live in New York in 1892. Maggie, by way of one of her half-sisters – Sophia Dodson Lomax (1826–1894) and husband, Charles Alfred Mitchell (1817–1864) – was an aunt of Julian Bugher Mitchell (1851–1926), a musical comedy director associated with Weber & Fields and Florenz Ziegfeld.[8][9]

Maggie's mother was Hannah Dodson (maiden; 1805–1869), born Knaresborough, Yorkshire. She married – on February 24, 1824, in Manchester – John Lomax (1803–1832), a native of Bolton, and emigrated to the US in 1830. In 1832, they were preparing to return to England to escape an epidemic of cholera, but Lomax died before they sailed. Hannah afterward married Maggie's father, Charles S. Mitchell (1805–1886), to whom Lomax's bookbinding business had been sold.[10] Mitchell's 1st cousin, Joseph Dodson Greenhalgh (1821–1886), recalled stories that circulated in the English side of the family about the actress's salary, her servants, accouterments, and jewelry.[11] The actor and author Dodson Mitchell was still another relation.

Maggie's mother was a sister of Ann Dodson (maiden; 1788–1863), who, with her husband Thomas Greenhalge (1780–1859), was a grandmother of Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (1842–1896), the 38th Governor of Massachusetts.[12] Maggie's maternal half-sister, Mary Mitchell (née Lomax; 1833–1908) – also an actress – was married to John William Albaugh, Sr. (1837–1909), an actor and theater operator, notably, from 1884 to 1894, proprietor of Albaugh's Grand Opera House (2,000 seats) in Washington, D.C.

Death

After her death on March 22, 1918, in New York City, one of the wealthiest actresses in the world (primarily in Manhattan and Long Branch, New Jersey, real estate), Mitchell was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

References
  1. Leonard, John William, ed. (1901). "Mitchell, Maggie". Who's Who in America, 1901–1902. Vol. 2. Chicago: A.N. Marquis & Company. p. 790. Retrieved August 24, 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. Bogar, Thomas Arthur (2020). Champagne Sparkle – Maggie Mitchell, The First Musical Comedy Star of the American Stage. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved November 4, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 2020-941513; ISBN 978-1-5381-4348-3, 1-5381-4348-8; OCLC 1145609119 (all editions).
    1. Via Google Books (limited preview).
  3. Clapp, John Bouvé; Edgett, Edwin Francis (1899). Players of The Present (Part 1). New Series No. 9. New York: The Dunlap Society (publisher). New York: The De Vinne Press (printer). Retrieved January 24, 2020 – via Google Books (Cornell University). pp. 10, 12, 40, 49, 80, 100, 110, 132, 241, 251, 254, 321. LCCN 01-8294; OCLC 2623904 (all editions).
  4. Gilman, Daniel Coit; Peck, Harry Thurston; Colby, Frank Moore, eds. (1903). "Mitchell, Margaret Julia". New International Encyclopædia. Vol. 12. Dodd, Mead & Company. p. 421. Retrieved October 3, 2021 – via Google Books (University of Michigan) See New International Encyclopædia{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 02-18468; OCLC 369176 (all editions).
    This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain.
  5. Hines, Dixie (né George Wilmer Hines Jr.); Hanaford, Harry Prescott, eds. (1914). "Mitchell, Maggie". Who's Who in Music and Drama. New York: H.P. Hanaford. p. 325. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Google Books (Harvard).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) LCCN 14-18082; OCLC 5345361, 21786350.
  6. Holden, Luther Loud (1896). "Maggie Mitchell". In McKay, Frederic Edward; Wingate, Charles Edgar Lewis (eds.). Famous American Actors of To–Day. Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company (publisher). Boston: C.J. Peters & Son (printer) → Charles J. Peters & George E. Peters. pp. 309–321. Retrieved November 3, 2021 – via Google Books (Stanford) {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 13-12208; OCLC 180630860 (all editions) & 1086897417.
  7. Thomas, Benjamin Platt (1952). Abraham Lincoln: A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 241. Retrieved November 3, 2021 – via Internet Archive (Brown University) {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 52-6425; OCLC 421189 (all editions).
  8. James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S., eds. (1971). "Mitchell, Maggie". Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. pp. 551–552. Retrieved October 3, 2021 – via Internet Archive. LCCN 76-152274; ISBN 0-6746-2731-8; OCLC 184794830 (all editions).
  9. Maggie Mitchell; North American Theatre Online
  10. Lomax, Joseph (1894). "John Lomax". Genealogical and Historical Sketches of the Lomax Family. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Rookus Printing House. p. 115. Retrieved Novembger 4, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 09-11606; OCLC 62046337 (all editions).
    1. Via Internet Archive (Allen County Public Library).
  11. Greenhalgh, Joseph Dodson (1869). Memoranda of the Greenhalgh Family. Bolton, England: T. Abbatt's Machine Printing Works (printer). pp. 22–27. Retrieved August 12, 2016 – via Google Books (Bodleian Library). LCCN 25-17995, LCCN 86-158572; OCLC 17117970 (all editions).
    The author was a brother of Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (1842–1896), the 38th Governor of Massachusetts, and a 1st cousin of Maggie Mitchell.
  12. Anderson, George Baker (1897). "Joseph D. Lomax, M.D.". Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York. Published Under the Auspices of The Troy Press. Syracuse: D. Mason & Company. Retrieved November 4, 2021 – via Google Books (Stanford). Note: Joseph Dodson Lomax, M.D. (1829–1899), was a half-brother of Maggie Mitchell.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 01-16740; OCLC 1728151 (all editions).
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