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Thomas Eugene Mitten was born on March 31, 1864, at Brighton, Sussex, England. He was the son of George and Jane (Lucke) Mitten. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1877 and settled on a farm near Goodland, Newton County, Indiana.
Thomas acquired a working knowledge of telegraphy from the Goodland station agent and at the end of that period became a telegraph operator and station agent at Wyndham (now Swanington), Indiana, for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. In 1887, he became local agent at Attica, Indiana, for the same railroad and from 1890 to 1893, he held various minor positions with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and the Rio Grande Western Railroad. He then became general superintendent of the Denver, Lakewood & Golden Railroad, a suburban line, parts of which were electrified under his direction. His opportunity to enter the electric street-railway industry came in 1896 when he was made assistant superintendent and later general superintendent of the street-railway system of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left this position in 1901 to become general superintendent of the International Railway Company, operating electric lines in and around Buffalo, New York, and for a year, 1904-05, was general manager of the system. In 1905, he went to Chicago to accept the presidency of the Chicago City Railway Company. He resigned this position in 1911 to become director and general supervisor of the physical properties of the lines of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, then practically bankrupt.
In June of this same year, he was elected chairman of the executive committee and later president of the company, which post he held until February 1923 when he resigned, retaining, however, the chairmanship of the board of directors and of the executive committee. The independent transit corporations in the city of Philadelphia Mitten brought under the control of Mitten Management, Incorporated, a company capitalized at $10, 000 and incorporated under the laws of Delaware. In 1924, the company took over the operation of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Under Mitten management the Transit Company failed to submit annual reports to the city comptroller called for by the company's contract with the city and in July 1929 Mayor Mackey ordered an investigation of the accounts. As a result of the audit conducted by Milo R. Maltbie, revealing tremendous expenditures for the operation of the Transit Company, the city comptroller filed suit on December 1, 1929, for an accounting of transit finances. Meanwhile, on October 1, Mitten was drowned in Big Log Cabin Pond on his estate, "Sunnyland, " about twelve miles from Milford in Pike County, Pennsylvania. In April 1931, the Transit Company was ordered into receivership. Judge Harry S. McDevitt of the Philadelphia court of common pleas, in making the order, condemned the Mitten Management as "'a colossal conspiracy against the taxpayers". The bulk of Mitten's estate, which by the terms of a will drawn up a few days before his death, was to have been largely used in furthering friendly relations between capital and labor, was absorbed in the settlement of claims of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company against Mitten Management.
Mitten had gained a reputation for interesting himself in the problems of labor and of turning labor into capital through the cooperation of men and management. One of his first projects in connection with the affairs of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company was the formation of the so-called "Mitten Co-Operative Plan, " which gave employees a voice in matters affecting wages and working conditions, made employees stockholders of the company, and gave them representation on the board of directors. He also organized the Mitten Men and Management Bank and Trust Company.
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Mitten was married in 1887 to Kate M. Warner of Fowler, Indiana. In 1904, he was married to Ruth Bissell of Lockport, New York, who divorced him in Paris in 1926.
