WHITE CO, AR - JOHN S. MITCHELL, M. D. - Bio


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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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John S. Mitchell, M. D., whose professional career is one in which he
may take just pride, is a son of a veteran of the Mexican War, James 
S. Mitchell, and has been a resident of White County since 1858. James 
S. Mitchell was born in Monroe County, Ky., on August 14, 1793, and 
was married shortly after his return from the War of 1812, in which he 
was actively engaged, to Miss Sarah Scott, a Tennesseean by birth, 
born January 18, 1795. They were the parents of seven children: Dorcas
(afterward Mrs. Gist), Frances (Wilson), Mary (Dies), Matilda Barger),
John S. (our subject) and Louis B. (who is also a physician of Monroe
County. Mrs. Mitchell's family were also originally from Tennessee. 
The Mitchells were connected with the celebrated Boone family of 
Kentucky.

John S. was born in Kentucky November 14, 1824, growing to manhood on 
a farm, and accompanying his father to Henderson County, Tenn., when a
boy. He was married December 30, 1849, to Miss Sarah J. Dotson, 
daughter of Thomas and Charlotte (Pipkin) Dotson, who were married in 
1815, and became the parents of four children. After his marriage, 
Dr. Mitchell returned to Tennessee, living there nine years. In the 
spring of 1858 he came to White County, where he bought a farm of two 
hundred acres of unimproved land, clearing the same himself, and 
placing over half of it under cultivation. 

Himself and wife have been blessed with seven children, five of whom 
are living: Irena F. (Swinford), James B., William B., John T. 
(deceased), Albert G., Sally A. and Virgil. Dr. Mitchell also has ten 
grandchildren. He is a strong Democrat, and served as justice of the 
peace during the war and until the reconstruction. A Master Mason, he 
belongs to Centre Hill Lodge No. 114, and to Centre Hill Chapter. Dr. 
Mitchell and wife are connected with the Christian Church. [p.209] Two 
of their children only are living at home at the present time.