Bio of William MITCHELL (d.1872), Wright Co., MN

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Bios from:  Mitchell, William Bell, 
History of Stearns County, Minnesota.  Volume II.  
Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. and Co.  1915.

Page 964

William Mitchell, and his good wife, Elizabeth Deacon, were born 
in County Leitren, Ireland, there received their education, grew 
to adult years and were married.  After being married for some 
years, William Mitchell determined to seek for himself and family 
the wider opportunities and greater freedom of the new world.  
Consequently in February, 1865, he set sail for America.  On 
reaching New York he at once enlisted in a New York regiment, 
and was sent south.  He was honorably discharged at the close 
of the conflict at Cloud's Mills, Virginia.  Upon his return to 
civil life he came at once to Stearns county, and took a homestead 
in Fair Haven township.  In July , 1866 his wife and children joined 
him.  After proving up on the homestead he moved to Lynden township, 
and purchased eighty acres in section 5, Lynden township, where he 
built up a place which, for that time, was an unusually good one.  
He became one of the leading men in the community, and died in 1872.  
To Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell were born seven children: Susanna M., 
now Mrs. William Lyons, of Lynden; Eliza Jane (deceased); Alexander 
of Lynden; Ann, now Mrs. B.F. Lyons, of Lynden; John , of Lynden; 
Samuel (deceased); and W. L. P.,  of Montana.  The youngest son was 
born in Fair Haven, and the rest in Ireland.