Lewis County, West Virginia          Biography of John Stillwell MITCHELL

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Mitchell, John Stillwell
Submitted by: N. L. Kotowski

Of the families now residing in West Virginia, who originally lived in
Maryland, is the Mitchell family of Weston, Lewis county.

John Stillwell Mitchell, present secretary and superintendent of the Weston
Electric Light, Power & Water Company, is the son of Benjamin and Eleanor
(Stillwell) Mitchell. His father was a shipbuilder by occupation and lived in
Hancock, Washington county, Maryland, where John S. was born March 2, 1853.
He obtained his education in the public schools of his native county, after
which he joined his father in business, remaining there until 1881, when he
went to Weston, West Virginia, to accept a position of trust at the State
Hospital for the Insane. He held this position until he engaged in his
present business enterprise, with which he has been prominently connected.
The Weston Electric Light, Power & Water Company was organized and promoted
by Mr. Mitchell and incorporated November 9, 1899, with J. S. Mitchell, W. G.
Bennett, Messrs. Ralston, Lewis and Kitson as incorporators . . . Politically
he is "Gorman" Democrat of the Maryland stripe. . .

In 1874 he married Clara Johnson, of Cumberland, Maryland, a daughter of John
F. and Phoebe (Harper) Johnson, the former a prominent merchant of
Cumberland, Maryland . . Children of John F. Johnson and wife are Judge
Thomas Johnson, of the Orphans' Court of Allegany county, Maryland; James S.,
a plumber; Joseph, Annie, wife of J. W. Fallon, of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell: Phoebe E., a teacher in the Western
schools; John D., now assistant cashier in the National Exchange Bank of
Weston, married Lucy Gabriel; Beulah, at home; James R., who was associated
with his father at the time of his death, which was caused by being run over
by a train in the Weston yards June 28, 1910. The only grandchild is Clara M.
Mitchell, daughter of John D. and Lucy (Gabriel) Mitchell. [pp 789-790]

Source:
Genealogical and Personal History of the UPPER MONONGAHELA VALLEY West
Virginia by James Morton Callahan, 1912