James A Mitchell

James A. Mitchell was born in Centreville, Maryland in 1892. After graduation from Trinity College in Hartford, he spent three years in China amidst the chaos of changing regimes. He returned home in 1918 to join the American forces in Europe, but the war ended and he never shipped out. He earned a Master's Degree in English from Yale in 1921, and then, at age forty, decided to enter the ministry. He was the rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church in Englewood, New Jersey for 30 years. In the...See more

James A. Mitchell was born in Centreville, Maryland in 1892. After graduation from Trinity College in Hartford, he spent three years in China amidst the chaos of changing regimes. He returned home in 1918 to join the American forces in Europe, but the war ended and he never shipped out. He earned a Master's Degree in English from Yale in 1921, and then, at age forty, decided to enter the ministry. He was the rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church in Englewood, New Jersey for 30 years. In the 1950s, he was caught up in the McCarthy scandals because of his support for civil rights and his work for progressive causes. He died in 1967. See less