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Rev. William Mitchell
12020-09-29T16:09:39-07:00John David Beatty85388be94808daa88b6f1a0c89beb70cd0fac252327161plain2020-09-29T16:09:40-07:00John David Beatty85388be94808daa88b6f1a0c89beb70cd0fac252The Rev. William Mitchell was born in Kendallville, Indiana, on 23 August 1865, the son of John and Sophronia Julia (Weston) Mitchell. He graduated from Harvard in 1887 and then attended Cambridge Theological Seminary. He returned to Kendallville in 1890 and with the help of Bishop Knickerbacker, celebrated communion. After serving two years at St. Luke's Church in Allston, Massachusetts, he returned to Kendallville and with the bishop organized Trinity Episcopal Mission on a lot east of the Mitchell homestead donated by John Mitchell, the missionary's father. Mitchell was ordained a deacon by Bishop Knickerbacker in 1892 and then turned to Massachusetts for ordination to the priesthood by Bishop Brooks in 1895. He served as rector of St. Luke's in Terre Haute from 1895 to 1900. He then went to Minnesota to serve churches in St. Paul and Redwood Falls. With his health filing, he served a church in Pascoag, Rhode Island, before returning to Indiana to die in Logansport on 31 October 1908. He was buried in the Mitchell family plot in Kendallville.