. A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away. in 1833 crossed the Atlantic to thenew world, taking up his abode in Chicago, Illinois, where he engaged in themanufacture of the INIitchell wagon. In 1856 he removed to Kenosha, Wis-consin, where he established the Bain J\Ianufactory, which he afterward soldto E. Bain. His next place of residence was Racine, and there he becamethe founder of the Mitchell & Lewis Company, which carried on a very ex-tensive business th
. A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away. in 1833 crossed the Atlantic to thenew world, taking up his abode in Chicago, Illinois, where he engaged in themanufacture of the INIitchell wagon. In 1856 he removed to Kenosha, Wis-consin, where he established the Bain J\Ianufactory, which he afterward soldto E. Bain. His next place of residence was Racine, and there he becamethe founder of the Mitchell & Lewis Company, which carried on a very ex-tensive business there, manufacturing thirty thousand wagons yearly. died on the 23d of October, 1893, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. William Henry Mitchell, the eldest son, and the father of our subject,was born in Chicago in 1S34 and accompanied his parents on their removalto Kenosha. The year 1853 witnessed his arrival on the Pacific coast. Hecrossed the plains with oxen, leaving his Wisconsin home in April and arriv-ing in Olympia, Washington territory, in the following October. He wasa single man at that time, but while enroute met the lady who afterward be-.
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