"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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JAMES V. MITCHELL, attorney at law, is a native of this county, born October
15, 1842, and was here reared. After attending the preliminary schools he
became a student of and graduated from the State University at Bloomington
in 1862, after which he began the study of law with Messrs. Barbour &
Howland, and later formed a partnership with Alfred Ennis, but is now a
member of the firm of Mitchell & Cox. In 1863, he married, in Monroe
County, Ind., Miss Addie Draper, daughter of Jesse Draper; she died
November 7, 1869, in San Jose, Cal., leaving two children--May Pearl and
Dick Draper. April 26, 1871, he wedded his second wife, Mrs. Sallie F.
Lawson. Mr. Mitchell was in early life a Douglas Democrat; during the war,
he voted with the Republicans, and after the great struggle he again joined
the Democratic ranks. In 1868, he was elected to the Legislature from this
county by the Republicans, and was the only member of that party who voted
and fought against the fifteenth amendment. In 1871, he was elected by the
Legislature Trustee of the Wabash & Erie Canal. Mr. Mitchell is a member of
the Masonic fraternity.
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