BIO:  HOWARD LESLIE MITTEN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 797-798
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    HOWARD LESLIE MITTEN, editor and proprietor of The Shippensburg Chronicle,
  was born at New Windsor, Carroll Co., Md., Jan. 13, 1873, son of James Knox
  and Julia (Warner) Mitten, natives and members of old families of Maryland.
  At the age of one year he moved with, his parents to Smithsburg, Washington
  Co., Md., where he was reared to manhood. He was educated in the public
  schools of Washington county, Md., and the High School at Hagerstown, and he
  taught in the public schools for several years. Mr. Mitten spent several
  years in Baltimore, Md., and in March, 1897, went to Huntingdon, Pa., where
  he engaged in business and in May, 1898, became proprietor of the Huntingdon
  Semi-Weekly News, a paper founded by the late Hugh Lindsay. Mr. Mitten edited
  the paper until Nov. 1, 1902, when by reason of ill health he was forced to
  seek a more healthy climate.

    On Oct. 6, 1897, Mr. Mitten was married to N. Margaret Morton, daughter of
  the late Rev. John B. Morton, a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Ohio, at
  the home of the late General Ferd Van Derveer, in Hamilton, Ohio. One child,
  Margaret Morton Mitten, was born Sept. 15, 1898. Mr. Mitten became proprietor
  and editor of The Chronicle, April 1, 1903, removing

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  from Hagerstown, Md., where he resided with his family several months, having
  obtained possession of it from Mrs. R. Belle Wolfe, now Mrs. Evans, who for
  fourteen years carried on the work successfully. The paper is still in a
  flourishing condition, and continues to be one of the best family papers
  published in the county.

    Mr. Mitten is a member of the Episcopal Church, and one of the founders of
  St. Andrew's Mission, established in Shippensburg in May, 1903.