Thursday-Sunday, January 14-17, 2010
Chairman: Brian Moore
An international invitational bonspiel, founded by
Alexander Mitchell, patron of the Grand National, who placed the medal
into competition in February of 1885.
Alexander
Mitchell, a Scot from Aberdeenshire, moved to Milwaukee in 1839 as the
representative of a Scottish insurance company. He became a leading
banker, industrialist and later on became President of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In December of 1884, he donated the
Mitchell Gold Medal for annual competition to be "played in the
Eastern and Western sections alternately with the Gordon Champion Rink
Medal." Mr. Mitchell died of pneumonia in the spring of 1887 and the
last Western Competition was held in St. Paul in February of 1898.
After that it was held only in the East, and in 1916, it was decided
to make The Utica Curling Club, the permanent host of the Bonspiel.
Alexander
Mitchell, a Scot from Aberdeenshire, moved to Milwaukee in 1839 as the
representative of a Scottish insurance company. He became a leading
banker, industrialist and later on became President of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In December of 1884, he donated the
Mitchell Gold Medal for annual competition to be "played in the
Eastern and Western sections alternately with the Gordon Champion Rink
Medal." Mr. Mitchell died of pneumonia in the spring of 1887 and the
last Western Competition was held in St. Paul in February of 1898.
After that it was held only in the East, and in 1916, it was decided
to make The Utica Curling Club, the permanent host of the Bonspiel.