Mitchell, J. C.

MITCHELL

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Date: 1/8/2009 at 13:47:16

J. C. Mitchell

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.39, Council Bluffs)
J. C. Mitchell, ticket agent, Council Bluffs, was born in Mystic, New London Co., Conn., May 27, 1856. In 1866, he moved with his parents to Owatonna, Minn. In 1870, he accepted a position as operator at St. Paul., and was afterward at Stillwater, Minn., in the employ of the Lake Superior & Mississippi Railway Company. Here he remained about one year, when he went to St. Peter, Minn., as operator and clerk for the Chicago & North-Western Railway Company. He remained in the latter company's employ for about five years. He assisted his father for about a year and a hlaf, in the latter's store in Owatonna, Minn. He came to Council Bluffs in the fall of 1880, when he accepted the position of Ticket Agent for the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company. Our subject is of English and Scotch descent.