Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Mitchell, Samuel 1866 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 26, 2006, 4:39 am Author: John C. Odell (1916) SAMUEL MITCHELL. Having been educated in one of the higher arts, Samuel Mitchell, whose name stands at the head of this review, enjoys the distinction of following a vocation out of the ordinary. The gift of a musical ear is not the good fortune of all, although there are few who do not appreciate good music when they are fortunate enough to hear it. Mr. Mitchell is a natural born musician, and is to be congratulated upon having his life work fall along such pleasant lines. Samuel Mitchell, instructor of music, Deer Creek, Carroll county, was born on February 14, 1866, in Carrollton township, in the county where he still resides, and is a son of E. H. and Mary Agnes (Snell) Mitchell. He received a good public school education, and later took a musical, course at Tabor College in Iowa, finishing at the Metropolitan School of Music, at Indianapolis. Mr. Mitchell moved to Deer Creek in 1897, where he has given instruction on the piano, violin, cornet, and other instruments, and has been instructor in the city schools for the past eight years. He is a Democrat, while his religious belief is with the United Brethren church, where he has been organist and pianist thirty consecutive years. He is the present pianist, and one of the parsonage trustees. He was prominent in the organization of the telephone company at Deer Creek, and officiated as its original secretary, which position he resigned, and later accepted again, and in which capacity he has served for the past seven years. E. H. Mitchell was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, on April 20, 1840, and came to Carroll county with his parents in 1856. His early education was obtained at the public schools, and he later entered Bainbridge, finishing at DePauw University. He taught school in the later fifties and early sixties, entering the service of his country in October, 1862, and served until the end of the Civil War. He was a member of Company A, Fifty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers and was wounded in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, in Vicksburg campaign under Colonel Mansfield, and later contracted malaria and typhoid fevers, and was reported dead. He resumed school teaching for a short time, and in 1864 was united in marriage with Mary Agnes Snell, who was born October 17, 1842, and died May 26, 1866. Mr. Mitchell then returned to Hendricks county and taught school at Clayton, 1868 and 1869, where he became acquainted with Mary E. Miller, also a teacher and widow of J. H. Miller, who became his second wife, and the mother of nine children: Nellie V., Harry T., Livingston H., Jessie, Columbus N., Charles H., Anna L., Horace Ewing, and Arthur E. Nellie Mitchell became the wife of J. L. Edmondson and lives in Hendricks county, Indiana; Harry T. was graduated from DePauw University, and was united in marriage with Eva Snodgrass. They reside at Sugar City, Colorado, where Mr. Mitchell is superintendent and teacher in the high school; Livingston H., a musician of note is at present president of a large conservatory at Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Jessie became the wife of Frank Beadle and resides at Clayton, Indiana. Columbus N. is a civil service employe. He is married and resides at La Jaunta, Colorado, Arthur E., an attorney, is a graduate of Colorado College of Colorado Springs, also the University of Chicago. He was united in marriage to Joan McDougal, a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and at present resides in Knoxville, Tennessee. Willie Miller, the step-son, is married and is a lumberman at Farragut, Iowa. Charles Howard, Anna Lillian and Horace Ewing are deceased. After his second marriage, Mr. Mitchell moved to Sydney, Iowa, August, 1869, where he lived until the death of his wife, when he returned to Hendricks county, Indiana, and made his home with his daughter, Jessie. spending the remainder of his life near the old homestead. Samuel Mitchell, the paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, a circuit rider, who accepted a charge at Clayton, Indiana, remaining there a number of years during Van Buren's time. He was a prominent man in his day, a forceful speaker, and took an active part in church societies. After his children grew to maturity, he moved to Camden, taking charge of the church there and at Wheeling, where he lived until his death, which occurred on the Albert O'Bear farm. In his sphere of endeavor, Mr. Mitchell has arisen to a prominent and enviable point, and is second to none in his township, where his name and fame have become widely known. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Biographical Section of HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/mitchell243nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb