Putnam County GaArchives History .....UGA Centenial Alumni Catalogue 1901 Questionaire Walter Hughes Mitchell 1901
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UGA Centenial Alumni Catalogue 1901 questionaire 

Top of form has Walter H. Mitchell 
1. Full name.  William Hughes Mitchell
2. Address:  
3. Place & time of birth: Clarke County, Ga. 1807
4. Date of entrance, with class entered: Matriculated 1824
5. college honors: 
6. Literary Society:  Phi Kappa
7. Date of graduation, degree received or date of leaving college:  He was a 
matriculate, and did not finish his course.  
8. Other institutions attended later; degrees received; with dates:
9. Honorary degrees; by whom conferred, with dates:
10. Member of learned societies: 
11. Facts relating to marriage:  He married Camilla D. Alexander at Hillsboro, 
Ga. 1832.
12. Facts as to occupation and business life:  He was a man of large business 
enterprises, distinguishing himself as a financier, prior to the civil war 
investing largely in Southern railroads, lands, and southern securities 
generally. 
13. Public service: 
(a) Civil:  He was for several years the Treasurer of the State.
(b) Military: Incapacitated by lameness for active military service in civil 
war, he served as Quarter Master in Commissary Department. 
(c) Positions in religious or educational work, with dates: Trustee of Emory 
College, more than once on Board of Visitors to Wesleyan College.  He was a 
prominant Methodist, his house in Milledgeville, then the capitol of the State 
being the ___chers' home. 
14. Writings:
15. Any additional info of a personal nature: He was himself a teacher in 
early life and always interested in the furtherance of education giving 
encouragement and financial aid to more than one poor and deserving youths.  A 
touching testimonial of his generosity was given by one of those beneficiaries 
who sought Colonel Mitchell's widow in her declining years and insisted on 
repaying at least in part the money received from her husband in days of 
prosperity. 
16. Names & addresses of any relatives, immediate or remote, who were 
alumni.   
 
He died December, 1868.
 

Additional Comments:
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Walter Hughes Mitchell was the son of William Mitchell, Jr. and Elizabeth 
Chowning. 

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