John Ames Mitchell (January 17, 1845 – June 29, 1918) was an American publisher, architect, artist and novelist.

[1] He was a Harvard University educated architect who studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Serving as president, Mitchell held a 75 percent interest in the magazine with the remainder by Miller in his job as secretary-treasurer.

He and Horace Greeley of the New York Herald Tribune founded the Fresh Air Fund, which for many years operated the Life Fresh Air camp for city kids on the site of today's Branchville School in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the town in which Mitchell also lived.

Amos Judd (1895) was made into the 1922 silent film, The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino.