History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . hecounty. William \\ . Miichell is a scion of oneof the old .Hid honored families of theWolverine state. ha\ing been born in thecity of Hillsdale. Michigan, on the 3d ofJune, 1851, and being the third in order ofbirth of si.\ children of Charles T. and Har-riet (Wing~i Mitchell, the former of whomwas born in Xcw York, and the latter inWayne county, Michigan. The paternalgrandfather of the subject likewise bore thename of Charles T. Mitchell, and he passedhis
History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . hecounty. William \\ . Miichell is a scion of oneof the old .Hid honored families of theWolverine state. ha\ing been born in thecity of Hillsdale. Michigan, on the 3d ofJune, 1851, and being the third in order ofbirth of si.\ children of Charles T. and Har-riet (Wing~i Mitchell, the former of whomwas born in Xcw York, and the latter inWayne county, Michigan. The paternalgrandfather of the subject likewise bore thename of Charles T. Mitchell, and he passedhis entire life in the old Empire state, wherehe died at an advancetl age. Charles was reared and educated in Xew Yorkstate, whence as a young man he came toMichigan and became identified, as a con-tractor, the construction of the Michi-gan Southern Railroad, one of the firstbuilt in the west. Later he became a buyerand shi))per of wheat and also establishedhimself in the hardware business in Hills-dale, where for a (piarter of a century hewas president of the Second National Bank,being one of the honored and influential. <^^<-^^,u^ ^^r a nuniherof years an active factor in the I-tepulilicanpart^. and his was the distinction of havinghccn a niemher of tlie electoral college Ahraham Lincoln the presidency fora second term. William W. Mitchell received his pre-liminary educational chscipline ui the publicscliools of his native town, and tliis was sup-plemented by two years of study in Hills-dale College. Tn 1873 he came to the primi-tive village of Clam Lake, the predecessorof the present city of Cadillac, the villagebeing at the time a mere hamlet in the midstof the pine forest, while his uncle, GeorgeA. :\Iitchell, was at the time die principalluml)er manufacturer in this locahty. Will-iam W. forthwith identilied himself in apractical way with the industry throughwhich he was eventually to attain so dis
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