Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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HENRY MILNOR MITCHELL 
 
was born in Richmond, Virginia, December 14, 1846.  Whilst yet a minor and 
attending the Virginia Military Institute, he served as a member of the Cadet 
Corps in the Confederate army, in Ewell's command, and was at Appomattox.  After 
the war he engaged in raising wheat and tobacco in Virginia; and in 1867 he 
taught
school in North Carolina. In 1868 he came via Nicaragua to California and to Los 
Angeles.  He first engaged here in surveying; then was a reporter and a law 
student for two or three years, being admitted to the bar in 1872, and to 
practice before the Supreme Court in 1879.  He was under-sheriff during the 
incumbency of Alexander and Rowland, and assisted in the capture of the 
notorious bandit Tiburcio Vasquez. Mr. Mitchell has also filled the positions of 
public administrator and notary public; and he served as Assistant 
Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff when General John M. Baldwin was in command 
of the First Brigade, National
Guards of California. In 1877 Mr. Mitchell was elected sheriff of Los Angeles 
County. In 1880, after the expiration of his term, he resumed the practice of 
law. He also laid off the place on the San Rafael Rancho, where he now lives. In 
October, 1879, he married the eldest daughter of Andrew Glassell, Esq.; they 
have two children. Mr. Mitchell was grand marshal of the celebration in this 
city of the Centennial of our National Independence. He served five years in the 
local volunteer fire department. Mr. Mitchell is a man of fine chivalrous 
instincts, and he has made an enviable record as an officer, as a journalist and 
as an attorney, and is held in deservedly high estimation as a cultured 
gentleman in the community in which he has lived now more than twenty years.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 571
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler