Ancestry of General
Billy Mitchell

Father of the U.S. Air Force

William Lendrum Mitchell

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Lendrum Mitchell 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Danforth Becker   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Dec 1879 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nice, France 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Feb 1936 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Notes: 

  • aka Gen. Billy Mitchell

    Father of the United States Air Force

• Marriages for William Lendrum Mitchell

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  • Spouse:
  • Caroline Stoddard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Dec 1903

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Trumbull Miller

• Sources for William Lendrum Mitchell

  • ¹ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 03 SEP 1948, p. 21, Wedding of Kenneth Gilpin Jr and daughter Lucy Trumbull Mitchell.
  • ² The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 22 MAR 1974, p. 8, Obituary for daughter Lucy Gilpin.
  • ³ 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).
  • ⁴ 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), 224-225.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 482-483.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Billy Mitchell", (accessed 11/13/2019).