Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Mitchell, H. L. 1871 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

H. L. MITCHELL, for many years a well-known citizen of Santa Monica and now
(1908) holding the office of City Superintendent of Buildings, Electrician and
Plumbing Inspector, is a native of Hudson, Lenawee county, Michigan, where he
was born May 10th, 1871. His father, Eli Mitchell, was, by trade, a millwright
and gunsmith. He was a native of New York and one of the pioneers of Lenawee
county. In 1875 he located on government land in Custer county, Nebraska, when
it was a new and comparatively undeveloped country and civic and social
conditions very much unsettled. In 1879, during the exciting times in that State
involving differences between homestead settlers and stockmen, Mr. Mitchell and
a fellow pioneer were murdered in cold blood at Plumb Creek, Nebraska. The widow
and family of eight children removed to the eastern part of the State and
located at Weeping Water, where she married Mr. John C. Marvin in 1882. In 1884
the family removed to San Antonio, Texas, where they lived until 1895 and
removed to California, locating at Santa Monica. At San Antonio Mr. Mitchell
learned the carpenter's trade and followed the same as an occupation, at times
carrying on a contracting business. Soon after arrival in Santa Monica in 1895
he married Miss Emily Catharine Loeffler, a native of San Antonio, Texas. The
year 1897 Mr. Mitchell held the office of Township Constable. He served as
Deputy City Marshall under M. K. Barretto for a period of about seven years,
from 1898 to 1906. In 1907 he was appointed to the position he now holds, one of
responsibility which he fills with marked credit to himself and entire
satisfaction to the people of his city.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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