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Billy Mitchell

Father of the U.S. Air Force

Alexander Mitchell

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• • Grandfather of Billy Mitchell — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • John Mitchell 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Lendrum   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Oct 1817 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
  • Christening Date:
  • 18 Oct 1817 
  • Christening Location:
  • Old Deer, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
  • Death Date:
  • 19 Apr 1887 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Reed
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Oct 1841 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Child:

  John Lendrum Mitchell (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • President of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

• Sources for Alexander Mitchell

  • ¹ Federal Census, WI, Milwaukee County, 1850, Milwaukee Ward 4, Image 6 of 60.
  • ² Federal Census, WI, Milwaukee County, 1880, Milwaukee, E.D. 108, p. 5, Image 5 of 26.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/13/2019).
  • ⁴ Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Its Fifty-Second Annual Meeting Held October 27, 1904, Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society (1905), 118-131.
  • ⁵ Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, Baptism record for Alexander Mitchell.
  • ⁶ The Dunn County News (Menomonie, Wisconsin), 21 FEB 1902, p. 4, Obituary for spouse Martha Reed Mitchell.
  • ⁷ U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992, 24 SEP 1844, Record for Alexander Mitchell.
  • ⁸ Logan, Mrs. John A., The Part Taken by Women in American History, Wilmington, Delaware: The Perry-Nalle Publishing Co. (1912), 527.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Alexander Mitchell (Wisconsin politician)", (accessed 11/13/2019).