. Contemporary American biography . CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 381 ALEXANDER MITCHELL. The late Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, Wis., capitalist, banker, and railroad president,was for many years one of the great business, social, and political powers of the was a Scotchman by birth, who spent nearly half a century of his life in his adopted home,and left the impress of his ability and character upon its institutions and the hearts of its peo-ple. He was born October 18, 1817, in the parish of Ellon, in the central portion of Aber-deenshire, Scotland, and was the son of Jo
. Contemporary American biography . CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 381 ALEXANDER MITCHELL. The late Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, Wis., capitalist, banker, and railroad president,was for many years one of the great business, social, and political powers of the was a Scotchman by birth, who spent nearly half a century of his life in his adopted home,and left the impress of his ability and character upon its institutions and the hearts of its peo-ple. He was born October 18, 1817, in the parish of Ellon, in the central portion of Aber-deenshire, Scotland, and was the son of John and Margaret (Lendrum) Mitchell. After study-ing in the private schools he was for two years in a law office in Aberdeen, where he broadenedthe range of his studies and reading, and later he became a clerk in a banking house in Peter-head, where he laid the foundations of his business knowledge and developed something of thosetraits that insured his great success in life. In May, 1839, when many of the enterprisingyoung men of S
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