James V. Mitchell

    James V. Mitchell, attorney at law, is a native of this county, born October 15, 1842, and was here reared. After attending the preliminary schools he became a student of and graduated from the State University at Bloomington in 1862, after which he began the study of law, with Messrs. Barbour & Howland, and alter formed a partnership with Alfred Ennis, but is now a member of the firm of Mitchell & Cox.

    In 1863, he married, in Monroe County, Indiana, Miss Addie Draper, daughter of Jesse Draper; she died November 7, 1869, in San Jose, California, leaving two children -May  Pearl and Dick Draper. April 26, 1871, he wedded his second wife, Mrs. Sallie F. Lawson.

    Mr. Mitchell was in early life a Douglas Democrat; during the war, he voted wit the Republicans, and after the great struggle he again joined the Democratic ranks. In 1868, he was elected to the Legislature from this county by the Republicans, and was the only member of that party who voted and fought against the fifteenth amendment. In 1871, he was elected by the Legislature Trustee of the Wabash & Erie Canal. Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.