Santa Rosa County FlArchives Biographies.....Mitchell, Henry Clay February 14, 1895 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.35  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        MITCHELL, HENRY CLAY. An efficient and popular member of the official 
executive corps of Santa Rosa County is Sheriff Mitchell, who is giving a 
vigorous and effective administration as sheriff of his native county. He was 
born at Milton, the county seat of Santa Rosa County, and the date of his birth 
was February 14, 1895, and he is a representative of old and honored families 
of this section of Florida. His parents, BENJAMIN and EMMA (AMOS) MITCHELL, 
still reside at Milton, the father having been born in this county in 1868 and 
having long been identified with agricultural and livestock industry in Santa 
Rosa County, where his parents, WILLIAM and MARGARET (JERNIGAN) MITCHELL, 
remained until their death, a family tradition being to the effect that in the 
Mitchell ancestry is a strain of Indian blood. The maternal grandparents of 
Sheriff Mitchell were HARRY and MARY (ROBINSON) AMOS, the former having been a 
son of Dr. MILTON AMOS, who came to America from his native Scotland and who 
was a leading physician and surgeon of his day in Florida.
	HENRY C. MITCHELL is indebted to the public schools of Santa Rosa 
County for his early education, which was supplemented by his attending, for 
two terms, the normal institute at Madison, this state. For three years 
thereafter he was successfully engaged in teaching in the schools of his native 
county, and he was then appointed deputy sheriff, under J. H. HARVELL. He 
retained this position three years, 1918 – 20, and in the autumn of 1920 he was 
elected county sheriff, with JOHN H. COLLINS as his opponent. His regular four 
year term as sheriff began January 4, 1921. The sheriff is a vigorous advocate 
of the principles of the democratic party, is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, South, is affiliated with the Scottish Rite body of the 
Masonic fraternity, as well as with the Mystic Shrine, and he holds membership 
also in the Knights of Pythias, including its adjunct organization, the 
Dramatic Order of the Knights Of Khorassan. Sheriff Mitchell is one of the 
popular young bachelors of his native county.
 
        

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