920 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
He was a devoted student of literature and political econ¬ 
omy and lectured on these subjects quite frequently during the 
last years of his life. 
His chief claims to distinction were his lofty character and 
his uncompromising devotion to principle. The patience and 
stoicism with which he bore pain and misfortune were remark¬ 
able, and the cheerful spirit with which he sacrificed his time, 
his labor and his health for his pupils, his family and others, 
will never he forgotten by those who knew him, for similar 
manifestations of unselfishness are seldom seen. Taken as he* 
was in his prime, the world lost at once a profound thinker, a 
true teacher and one whose place was in the foremost ranks of 
God’s nobility. 
Edith Lueders. 
JOHET LEMDRUM MITCHELL. 
A name which had stood in the list of life members of the 
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters for more 
than thirty years was removed from that place by the death of 
John Lendrum Mitchell, which occurred at Meadowmere, his 
country residence near Milwaukee, on the 29th of June 1904, 
in the sixty-second year of his age. 
He was the son of Alexander Mitchell, a commanding figure 
in the material development of the Northwest, who was one of 
the incorporators of this Academy. His mother was Martha 
(Reed) Mitchell. He was born in Milwaukee, October 19, 
1842. Of Scotch lineage on the one side and Yankee lineage 
on the other, he possessed characteristics reflecting both, 
though he never exerted himself in the direction of money- 
making. Eor that he had not the incentive which comes from 
need. 
His early education was obtained in the public schools of 
Milwaukee. Thence he was sent to the military school at 
