Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . e removed to California, hoping to benefit his health,but his wounds and the vicissitudes and exposures of his army lifehad so sapped his vitality, he deceased in SacramentK, in July,1881. Socially, lie was of gviieroiis temperament, amiable, iminilarwith the masses, whu esteeineil hiin for his strict integrity and hon-esty. Domestic in taste, he was devoted to his family, and a mostearnest lover of children. He was always greatly interested inpublic schools and i-lmrchcs. TIandieapix>d by his physical dis-ability, he was fdrc
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . e removed to California, hoping to benefit his health,but his wounds and the vicissitudes and exposures of his army lifehad so sapped his vitality, he deceased in SacramentK, in July,1881. Socially, lie was of gviieroiis temperament, amiable, iminilarwith the masses, whu esteeineil hiin for his strict integrity and hon-esty. Domestic in taste, he was devoted to his family, and a mostearnest lover of children. He was always greatly interested inpublic schools and i-lmrchcs. TIandieapix>d by his physical dis-ability, he was fdrced to foicgo much activity in social affairs ofthe commimity which his public spirit prompted. He was a mem-ber of the Masonic order, and his descendants believe he was acharter member of the first lodge instituted in Des Moines. Politically, he was first a Whig, but when the Eepublican partywa-s organized, he joined it and remained a member all his only public office he held, so far as I know, was that of Mayorof Boonesboro. October Thirteenth, JUDGE JOHN MITCHELL JUDGE JOHN MITCHELL RESIDEXTS of Polk Coimty a score of years ago cannot havef(jrgotten Judge John Mitchell, a nephew of the venerablepioneer, Uncle Tommy Mitchell. He was bom near Claremont, j^ew Hampshire, on FebraurvTwenty-eighth, 1830, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father was a farmer, and on a farm John passed the daysof his youth, devoting every opportunity to acquiring an took college preparatory courses at Kimball Union Academy,in Meriden, entered Dartmouth College, and at the end of hisSophomore year was compelled to suspend his studies because ofimpaired health, and seek a more favorable climate. In the Winterof , he had so far regained his health, he passed the Win-ter reading law in the office of Freeman & McClure, in the early part of 1856, he came to Foi-t Des Moines, and finishedreading law in the office of Dan Finch and M. M. Crocker,then two of the
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