Boone County >> 1880 Index

History of Boone County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Historical Company, 1880.

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Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.

MITCHELL, JOHN, farmer and stock raiser; Sec 3; P. O. Boone; was born in Campbell county, Virginia, September 26, 1807, and in 1813 moved with his parents to Kentucky, where he was raised and educated; in 1831 he went to Indiana, followed farming, and in the fall of 1854, came to Boone county, Iowa, where he still resides; he owns a fine farm of 350 acres of improved land; on coming to this State his nearest neighbor was three miles distant, although there were plenty of Indians who became very friendly with him; he always using them well; the wolves were frequent visitors, often carrying off poultry from his door yard; he was married in Kentucky, September 8, 1821, to Miss Mary Atkins; they have thirteen children: Greenbary, Ollie, Minnie, Mallichier, Margaret, Clay, Mary A., Malissa J. and Millie, living, and four deceased: John, James, Thomas and an infant.