BIO: Andrew Dinsmore MITCHELL, 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 262.
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  MITCHELL, ANDREW DINSMORE, was born in York county, Pa., February 2, 
1824.  He graduated at Jefferson College in 1841, and afterwards spent 
some time in teaching.  In 1844 he matriculated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary, where he prepared for the ministry.  He came 
under the care of the Carlisle Presbytery in 1849 as a licentiate from 
the Donegal Presbytery; and at the same time calls were placed at his 
hands from the united charges of Paxtang and Derry.  These he accepted, 
and in 1850 was ordained and installed pastor of that people, whom he 
acceptably served until 1874, when at his own request the pastoral 
relation was dissolved.  Subsequently he declined certain positions 
that were offered him, but in 1876 he accepted the appointment of 
chaplain in the United States army by his friend, Hon. J. D. Cameron, 
then Secretary of War.  He spent five years at the military prison of 
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and was transferred in the fall of 1881 to Fort 
Grant, Ari., where he died on the 26th of March, 1882, aged fifty-eight 
years.  Mr. Mitchell had also been the very acceptable stated clerk of 
the Carlisle Presbytery from 1857 to the year of his appointment as 
chaplain, 1876, when he resigned and received the special commendation 
of the Presbytery for his faithful services.  He had been repeatedly 
sent as a commissioner to the General Assembly, and in 1868 he was 
elected moderator of the Baltimore Synod, when the Carlisle Presbytery 
formed a part of that body.  He was very decided in his convictions, 
yet tolerant of the opinions of others and was a warm friend of the 
union between the two branches of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. 
Mitchell married a daughter of Dr. Benjamin J. Wiestling, of 
Middletown, Pa.