Bio of MITCHELL, Albert N. (b.1846), Wright Co., MN

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487   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 		



  Albert N. Mitchell, retired farmer, Monticello, was born in Monroe, 

Waldo county, Maine, July 3, 1846, son of Alexander and Jerusha (Webber) 

Mitchell, natives of Maine, now deceased, who came to Monticello township, 

Wright county, and settled on a claim in 1856. In the family there were 

nine children: Frank (deceased) a veteran of the Civil war; Louise (deceased) 

Henry (deceased); Albert N.; Augustus (deceased); Laura, wife of William 

Chaffee, of Portland, Ore.; Freemont, of Monticello township, this county,. 

Dora (deceased); and Edwin, of Monticello. Albert N. Mitchell was reared 

in Maine and in Minnesota. 



488            HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 



As a boy he worked with a threshing outfit in the Black Hills of the 

Dakotas. In 1864 he enlisted in Co. E, Eleventh Minnesota Volunteer 

Infantry, and did garrison duty to the end of the war, being mustered out 

at Nashville, Tenn. Then he took up farming. In 1866 he bought eighty 

acres of land in Monticello township, but soon sold this and for two 

years engaged in the milling business in Monticello. Then he went with a 

threshing outfit to the Black Hills once more and was there at the time 

of the Custer Massacre. Subsequently he worked in the pineries in 

northern Minnesota, and afterward took up farming in Monticello township, 

devoting every autumn to threshing. In 1900 he retired and moved to the 

village. Mr. Mitchell is a Republican and a member of the G. A. R. The 

family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Mitchell was 

married in June, 1884, to Freda G. Geiser, who died February 2, 1899. 

They have had five children: Grace, wife of James Mast, of Portland, 

Ore.; Lillian May, wife of Everett Walton, of Monticello; Frank; of 

Monticello; Laura, who keeps house for her father, and Gladys, who lives 

with her uncle, John Geiser, Jr.