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From: "Jim Laird" <>
Subject: [KSJEFFER] Death of D.T. MITCHELL..
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:20:16 -0500

The Oskaloosa Times
Friday
January 22, 1897

Death of D.T. Michell.
(We clip the following mention of the death of D.T. Mitchell, who was run over by a Rock Island train at perry week-before-last, from the Lawrence Journal)

The death of D.T. MITCHELL which occurred last week two miles up the Kaw bottom from this place removes an old and familiar figure known to thousands of persons all over the state. He was about 72 years of age and had spent nearly half of that time in the Kaw bottom. He came to the state from Illinois as a lawyer and arose into noticce as one in the city of Lawrence where for four years he was the county's attorney and prosecuted some remarkable cases. One of his combatants in most every notable lawsuit was Nicholas Haysrotd who was killed twenty years ago by a shot gun inthe hands of man who, when last heard from was in the state pen and is perhaps there now. After the close, or about the time of his attorneyship in Douglas county he came into possession of a tract of land in the Kaw bottom, reaching almost from Williamstown to Perryville. This land was then in its crude state, a wild and almost trodless region of country, but with the means at hand he set about clearing it!
up, believing at the same time there was more money in farming than in practing law. From time to ime he tired all kinds of farming from raising mules clear all the way down to potato raising. In the latter he was a specialist, but was far from successful. With this department of agriculture came into notice in the valley he usually had on his farm from 100 to 300 acres, mostly held and cultivated by tenants. His farm will remains just as it has been and not be divided up.

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