Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Julia Mitchell (popularly known as Maggie Mitchell) (1836–1918) was an American actress, born in New York City. She made her speaking debut as Julia in The Soldiers 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. She may have produced a son, Julian Bugher Mitchell (b. 7 Nov. 1851). She was married to Henry Paddock, her manager, in 1868, and they had two children Fanchon and Harry M. Paddock. They divorced twenty years later and she was wed to Charles Abbott (Mace), and retired from the stage to live in New York. She was (variously) the mother or aunt of Julian Bugher Mitchell, a musical comedy director associated with Weber & Fields and Florenz Ziegfeld. After her death on March 22, 1918, Maggie Mitchell was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.Maggie Mitchells mother was born Hannah Dodson in 1805 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire. She married John Lomax, a native of Bolton, and emigrated to the USA 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 Maggies father, Charles S. Mitchell, born 1805 in Scotland, to whom Lomaxs bookbinding business had been sold. Mitchells cousin, Joseph Dodson Greenhalgh, recalled stories that circulated in the English side of the family about the actresss salary, her servants, accoutrements and jewellery .

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