While the former CEO of Fidelity Investment, Edward Johnson III followed his father’s footsteps into the business and finance world, his sister Elsie P. Johnson Mitchell took interest in quite a different path in life.
Elsie P. Johnson Mitchell journeyed towards the path of religion and became one of the pioneers and co-founders of American Buddhism.
Edward Johnson III siblings: Who is his sister Elsie P. Johnson Mitchell?
Elsie Mitchell is one of the pioneers and co-founders of American Buddhism. The Cambridge Buddhist Association was formed in November 1957.
Elsie later took interest in protecting animals. She founded the Ahimsa Foundation, an organization that seeks to support humane societies, wildlife sanctuaries, and shelters for pets, farm animals, primates, and other forms of wildlife.
Elsie Johnson was born in Boston in 1926. According to sources, she “grew up among Unitarians who regarded the Christian saints as masochists and Buddha as a ‘noble hero and reformer.’”
She attended a boarding school called Farmington, in Connecticut. Elsie Johnson had no interest in going to college. But her father, Edward C. Johnson II, who founded Fidelity Management and Research Company, was not happy with his daughter’s decision.
Edward C. Johnson II insisted she joined the Junior League. In 1950, she volunteered as an English tutor for the International Institute in Boston, and later an English tutor for the Harvard University Yenching Institute.
Who is her partner John Michell?
Elsie met her husband, John Mitchell in 1947. John Mitchell was Englishman born in Austria and an investment analyst as well as researcher who shared a similar interest in Buddhism with Elsie.
In 1957, Elsie and John moved to Japan. The couple “began to think of spending a month or two in Japan in order to stay in a Japanese temple or temples.”
Does Elsie P. Johnson Mitchell have a child?
There is no information on Elsie P. Johnson Mitchell having a child.
Elsie P. Johnson Mitchell net worth
The net worth of Elsie P. Johnson Mitchell is not available.
