Donald Grant Mitchell

Donald Grant Mitchell (born April 12, 1822, Norwich, Conn., U.S.—died Dec. 15, 1908) was an American farmer and writer known for nostalgic, sentimental books on American life, especially Reveries of a Bachelor (1850). Mitchell graduated from Yale in 1841 and then returned home to farm his ancestral land. In 1844 he was appointed clerk to the U.S. consul at Liverpool, but poor health forced him to resign. Once back in America in 1846, he wrote...