of Monroe County, Indiana · documented from the public record
The family in the record
J. C. Mitchell b. 1849
parentsJames Mitchell
J. C. Mitchell⚭ Alice C. Wilson
childrenMrs. Lynn Williams · Mark Mitchell · Paul Mitchell
Their story
What the record says
History of Wapello County, Iowa, and representative citizens.
Attorney practicing law in Ottumwa, Wapello County since 1893, associated with F. M. Hunter.
Attended college at Mount Pleasant, Iowa from 1866.
Graduated June 1871.
Admitted to the bar spring 1872.
Practiced at Chariton, Iowa for over twenty years, part of the time serving as judge of the Second Judicial District of Iowa.
Removed to Ottumwa in 1893.
Also member of the firm Mitchell & Sloan at Keosauqua.
Democrat until 1898, then Republican.
Odd Fellow, Mason, Knight Templar, Modern Woodmen of America.
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