Hugh Chester Mitchell

Background

Mitchell, Hugh Chester was born on April 15, 1877 in Jackson County, Texas, United States. Son of Isaac Newton and Callista (Stapp) Mitchell.

Education

Student Saint Mary's College, San Antonio. Continuing education, University Notre Dame, Indiana, 1895, Bachelor of Science, 1898. Post-graduate study, Catholic U. American.

Career

Associate with U,South. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1898. Duty, Prize ring (The), Chesapeake Bay, Louisiana. Astronomical survey, Philippines, 1900-1903.

Mathematician General Office, Washington, 1903-1911.

Presented Peary’s North Pole data to Congress, 1911. In charge Hayford’s 2d investigation of figure and size of earth, and of precise geodetic topographical survey of Cincinnati.

Private engineering practice, 1913-1916. Ranching in Texas, 1916-1920.

Reentered Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1921, becoming principal mathematician.

Retired from active service, December, 1945. Instructor in astronomy Catholic U. American, 1927-1935. Chairman special committees

Federal Board Surveys and Maps on Plane Coordinates and Definitions on Surveying and Mapping Terms.

Achievements

• Hugh Chester Mitchell has been listed as a noteworthy mathematician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Club: Cosmos.; Member American Geophysical Union, American Polar Society. Member National Geography Society committee of experts which determined that Commander R. East. Byrd, United States Navy, reached the North Pole by airplane, 1926, and South Pole, 1930.

Connections

Married Agnes V. Marr, September 29, 1903 (died 1947). Children: Mistress Thomas Taylor Neill, Hugh Chester.

Father:

Isaac Newton Mitchell

Mother:

Callista (Stapp) Mitchell

Spouse:

Agnes V. Marr

child:

Hugh Chester Mitchell

child:

Mistress Thomas Taylor Neill Mitchell