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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN JACKSON MITCHELL, Probate Judge, Lauderdale County, was born at Florence,
September 15, 1854, and is a son of the late Rev. Wm. H. Mitchell, D. D., of the
Presbyterian Church.

  Rev. Dr. Mitchell was a native of Ireland. He came to America in 1843, and
died at Florence in 1872, at the age of 59 years.

  J. J. Mitchell was educated at Florence, and at the University of Mississippi,
afterward graduating in bookkeeping at Eastman College, at Atlanta. He studied
law at the Lebanon Law School, Lebanon, Tenn., and was admitted to the bar of
that State. He subsequently purchased the Chilton County Courier, published at
Canton, Ala., conducted it a few months, sold out, and came to Florence, where,
in 1876, he purchased the Gazette, of Jas. B. Ervine. He edited the Gazette up
to January, 1881; and. having in November of the preceding year been made Clerk
of the Probate Court, he sold the paper to Major Morgan.

  He occupied the position of Clerk of Probate until January, 1884, and. having
in that year purchased the Alabama Progress, published at Florence, he changed
its name to the North Star; conducted that paper for twelve months, and sold it
out to Mr. I. S. Barr, who, in 1885, merged it into the Banner.

   1886 he was elected Judge of Probate.

  Mr. Mitchell was married at Prattville, Ala., June 25, 1879, to Miss Etoile
Hurd, and has had born to him two children.

  Though qnite a young man, Judge Mitchell is regarded as one of the best
officials Lauderdale County has had. His popularity is attested by his
successful election to the office over a combination of independents and others,
of supposed great strength, by a neat majority.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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