Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Mitchell, Robert 1822 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Robert Mitchell, manufacturer of woolen goods, Veedersburg, is a son of James
and Mary Mitchell, both natives of Virginia, and emigrated to Fountain county in
1832, and settled in Van Buren township, on Coal creek. The former died about
one year after his arrival here. He was a millwright by profession. James
Mitchell raised a family of seven children, all of whom are dead except Robert,
who was born in Virginia, in 1822. He remained in his native state some little
time after his parents came to Fountain county. Robert was married in 1847, to
Margaret Patton, native of Fountain county, and daughter of Thomas Patton, an
early pioneer. She died in 1849, leaving one child, which survived its mother
less than a year. He was married a second time, to Miss Mary A. Middlebrook, a
native of Fountain county. By this marriage he has three daughters: Florence,
Bell, and Kate. Mr. Mitchell learned his trade principally in the State of
Virginia. In 1854, in company with Solomon Hetfield and James Carr, he erected
the Sugar Grove Woolen Mills, one mile south of Veedersburg, where he still
remains operating the same, having been engaged in the manufacture of woolen
goods for forty-five years.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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