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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 606-607]

    H. C. MITCHELL is an honored member of the farming community of
    Liberty Township.  He is a native of the Buckeye State, born in
    Adams county, July 30, 1844, and is the son of GEORGE and NANCY
    (BROMLEY) MITCHELL.  When H. C. was a lad of ten years his parents
    determined to go farther west, so they removed to Whiteside County,
    Illinois, and settled on a farm.  There our subject grew to manhood,
    receiving the training usually bestowed on a farmer's son, and the
    advantages of a common-school education.  At the age of twenty-one
    years he bade adieu to the family hearth-stone, and spent one year
    traveling through Texas, Indian Territory, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois.
    After studying the different advantages of this broad section, he
    decided to locate in Clinton County, Iowa, and there he remained
    seven years engaged in running a saw-mill.  He then left Clinton
    County and came to Cherokee County, purchasing a farm of eighty
    acres in Liberty Township, which he still makes his home.  He has
    a comfortable residence, substantial buildings for the care and
    protection of live-stock, and two and a half acres of grove, which
    adds greatly to the beauty of the farm, and not a little to its
    value.  An air of thrift and prosperity pervades the MITCHELL farm
    which speaks well for the management of the owner.  Mr. MITCHELL was
    married in 1876 to Miss CLARA STUART, a daughter of JOHN and MARY
    (BARBER) STUART.  Mrs. MITCHELL was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
    July 18, 1856.  By this union two children have been born: EDITH MAY
    and LAFAYETTE.  Mr. MITCHELL adheres to the principles of the Repub-
    lican party, and has been called upon to fill the office of township
    assessor.  He and his wife are members of the Christian Church, and
    are interested in the movement calculated to advance the community
    in which they live.

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