Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Mitchell, Ernest R. 1877 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

ERNEST R. MITCHELL.

Ernest R. Mitchell, lawyer and law maker, practicing his profession in Ottumwa,
was born in Mexico, Missouri, February 28, 1877. His father, John H. Mitchell,
was a native of Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio, born March 8, 1848. Removing
westward he engaged in the drug business at Mexico, Missouri, Moulton, Iowa, and
at Bloomfield from 1870 to 1892. From 1891 to 1894 he was a member of the state
board of pharmacy under appointment of Governor Horace Boies. He is now engaged
in the real-estate and insurance business at Ottumwa, having devoted his efforts
to activity along those lines since 1897. He now has many clients in both
branches of his business, and an analyzation of his life work shows that
enterprise has been one of the chief features of his success. His wife, who bore
the maiden name of Emma L. Dome, was born in Elkhart, Indiana, on the 25th of
May, 1846. Both Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mitchell are still living. In their family
were two sons, the elder being Fred R. Mitchell, a graduate of the Iowa College
of Music at Grinnell and now a professor of music in Denver, Colorado.

Ernest R. Mitchell was but a young lad when his parents removed from Missouri to
Iowa, and in the schools of Bloomfield he pursued his education until graduated
from the high school with the class of 1896. In the following fall he entered
the State University, where he pursued the liberal arts' course and won his
degree in June, 1900. He next studied law with the firm of Steck & Smith and was
admitted to practice by the supreme court of the state and the federal courts in
1902. Since that time he has followed his profession in Ottumwa and in a calling
where advancement is proverbially slow he has made great progress, winning
prominence and success by his thorough and competent methods and his
comprehensive knowledge of the law. He was assistant county attorney of Wapello
county from 1906 until 1910 and made an excellent record in that connection.
That by no means limits the extent of his political activity, however, for he
has ever been a stalwart advocate of democratic principles since age conferred
upon him the right of franchise, and in 1912 he was elected on the democratic
ticket to represent his district in the state legislature. He is a member of the
judiciary, municipal corporations, public lands and buildings, pharmacy, state
university, insurance, and code supplement committees, and is secretary of the
last named. He was renominated without opposition.

On the 11th of September, 1912, Mr. Mitchell was married to Miss Martha L.
McGavic, who was born in Ottumwa and is a daughter of S. L. McGavic, a lumberman
of Ottumwa. Her mother, who bore the maiden name of Ellen Boales, is deceased.

Mr. Mitchell is prominent in lodge circles. He belongs to Wapello Lodge, No. 12,
K. P.; Ottumwa Lodge, No. 347, B. P. O. E.; and the Royal Arcanum. He is also
one of the Ottumwa Oarsmen, a fact which indicates something of the nature of
his recreation. His religious faith is evidenced in his membership in Trinity
Episcopal church, in which he has served as vestryman since 1906. His ideals of
life are high, his actions manly and sincere, and the course which he pursues,
both at the bar and as a private citizen, commends him to the confidence,
respect and good-will of all.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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