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Billy Mitchell

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Billy Mitchell

Father of the U.S. Air Force


    John Lendrum Mitchell

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    • Father of Billy Mitchell — 2nd Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 19 Oct 1842 
    • Birth Location:
    • Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
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    • Death Date:
    • 29 Jun 1904 
    • Death Location:
    • Greenfield, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 11 Jul 1878 
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    • Notes: 
    • United State Senator from Wisconsin

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  • Sources for John Lendrum Mitchell

    • 1 Federal Census, WI, Milwaukee County, 1850, Milwaukee Ward 4, Image 6 of 60.
    • 3 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Its Fifty-Second Annual Meeting Held October 27, 1904, Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society (1905), 131.
    • 4 Johnston, Elizabeth Bryant, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 3, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company (1897), 47.
    • 5 Jones, Ms. Minnie L. (IMCOM), "William 'Billy' Mitchell - - 'The father of the United States Air Force', U.S. Army, https://www.army.mil/article/33680/william_billy_mitchell_the_father_of_the_united_states_air_force, (accessed 11/13/2019).
    • 6 May, John Joseph, Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope (1902), 224.