Wood County, West Virginia    Biography of William Lawson MITCHELL, D.D.S.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume ll.
pg. 120

William Lawson Mitchell, D.D.S., of Mannington, was born in Bellville,
Wood County, West Virginia, September 8, 1883, the son of the late
Horace and Ella (Williamson) Mitchell.

Horace Mitchell was one of the leading business men and popular citizens
of Wood County for many years. He was born in that county in 1853, and
died at his home in Bellville, June 5, 1914. He was the son of Henry and
Ann (Hupp) Mitchell, natives of Woods County, whose parents came from
Old Virginia, and were pioneers in that section of what is now West
Virginia. His wife, Ella Williamson, was born in Wood County in 1860,
and died November 11, 1902. She was the daughter of Anthony and Sarah
Williamson, natives of West Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively.

Henry Mitchell, grandfather of our subject , was an early merchant of
Bellville, and when his son, Horace, was a boy of eight years the latter
went to work in the store, he having been so small at that time that he
stood upon a box to wait on customers. Horace continued in his father's
store, and following the death of his father he and his brother succeeded
to the business, conducting it until the death of Horace in 1914.

Horace Mitchell was probably as well known and highly esteemed, especially
among traveling men, as any man in the Ohio Valley. He like his father
and grandfather, was an ardent democrat, though he never sought or held
public office. He was a member of the different Masonic bodies, including
the Scottish Rite thirty-second Degree, Knights Templar, also a member of
Osiris Temple, Mystic Shrine, Wheeling, and was active  in civic affairs.

Doctor Mitchell was reared in Bellville and acquired his early education
in the public schools. He was a student at Marshall College in 1901-02,
and then entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he was graduated D.D.S., class of 1907.

He practiced at Parkersburg, West Virginia, from 1907 to 1909, from
1909 to 1912 at Follansbee, West Virginia, and then located at Mannington,
where he has established himself as a successful dentist and a worth
while citizen.

Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Masons, including the Consistory
(thirty-second degree S.R.) and Shrine. He has been a member of the
Elks since he was twenty-one years old, and is a charter member of
the Mannington Kiwanis Club and also a member of the Presbyterian
Church.

On October 20, 1915, Doctor Mitchell married Nell Jackson Burt, who was
born in Mannington, the daughter of William and Rose (Prichard) Burt,
the former of whom is deceased.