BIO: Andrew MITCHEL, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 187.
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  MITCHEL, ANDREW, a native of Dublin, Ireland, born November 1, 1754, 
emigrated to America in 1774, on the eve of the Revolution.  Espousing 
the cause of the Colonies, he took position as an officer among the 
defenders of his adopted country.  He was a gentleman of finished 
education and excellent moral training, having been destined for a 
clerical life, adopted teaching as an avocation, and in the dearth of 
preceptors after the peace of 1783 had gratifying success as an 
educator.  He came to Harrisburg in 1791, and in June, 1795, married 
Margaret, the widow of Capt. John Hamilton.  He was one of the 
burgesses of the borough in 1799, and served a number of years in the 
town council.  Mr. Mitchel was an officer and early member of the 
Presbyterian church, and greatly assisted in its first organization.  
He died December 21, 1825, at his residence on Front street, now Mrs. 
Dr. Rutherford's.  His daughter, Jane Alexander, wife of Dr. Thomas 
Whiteside, was the only child who survived him.