Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . eral terms he was elected to the General As-sembly. He left to his children the task of per-petuating the high standard of citizenship withwhich the Mitchelson name has been so closelyassociated and which task it can be truly said wasfaithfully and successfully borne. He married Eliz-abeth Cornish, of Granby, who bore him three chil-dren : Elizabeth, Ariel and Hugh. ElizabethMitchelson was one of the grandest
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . eral terms he was elected to the General As-sembly. He left to his children the task of per-petuating the high standard of citizenship withwhich the Mitchelson name has been so closelyassociated and which task it can be truly said wasfaithfully and successfully borne. He married Eliz-abeth Cornish, of Granby, who bore him three chil-dren : Elizabeth, Ariel and Hugh. ElizabethMitchelson was one of the grandest types of woman-kind, possessed of a most lovable character, andwas widely known for her good and charitabledeeds. She remained unmarried through, life, andwas devotedly attached to charitable and religionswork. For sixty years she was the teacher of theinfant class in the Episcopal Church, and amongher pupils were many of the best citizens of to-day,all of whom revere her memory. She died , 1891. Hugh Mitchelson married Miss MaryDwight Morton, a highly esteemed woman of Hat-field, Mass. He lived in Bloomfield, being one ofits most prominent citizens, and died there, leaving. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 523 no children. He possessed a wonderfully retentivememory, and a large fund of valuable historicalknowledge. Ariel Mitchelson, the father, diedSept. 30, 1852, the mother on Dec. 17, 1846. Ariel Mitchelson, our subject, in his boyhoodattended the schools of his home district, afterwhich he became a student at what was known asHolcombs high school, in Granby. This educationwas supplemented with a course at an academy inPoughkeepsie, N. Y. The culture of tobacco inHartford county as a possible new industry of im-portance received earliest recognition from ArielMitchelson, who was the first grower in the town ofSimsbury. From his own success as a producer hisbusiness instincts quickly realized what the magni-tude of the culture would be in a few years, andwhat new busi
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