The Mitchell family came to Wisconsin in 1837 and settled on a farm in southern Wisconsin.

The evidence

• “He is a son of Jesse and Racina (Oviatt) Mitchell; his father was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of Ohio. They came to Wisconsin in 1837 and began .the life of a pioneer, settling on a farm in the beautiful southern Wisconsin land of promise, which our subject has since done his full share to develop, and has watched the rolling stretches of prairie interspersed with oak groves and here and there clumps of wild plum trees, transformed into one of the richest farming districts in the United States—a country of peace and plenty.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 458 / book p. 946

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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