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WILLIAM D. MITCHELL, farmer, section 28, post-office Dudenville, was born in Johnson county, Ind., June 18, 1839, and was reared and educated in Johnson county. He is the son of Benjamin and Bernetha Mitchell, natives of Kentucky. Our subject was the third of eleven children. On Aug. 14, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry, and served his country three years. He was mustered in at Indianapolis and went to Louisville, Ky., and joined the Army of the Cumberland, The principal battles he was engaged in were Berryville, Stone River, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, and was mustered out June 7, 1865. He was married to Miss Delphia Shoemaker, June 23, 1861, the daughter of Washington and Eliza Shoemaker. His father was born in Ohio and his mother in Kentucky. Mrs. Mitchell was the third of eight children, being born Feb. 1, 1841. Mr. Mitchell moved to Guthrie county, Iowa, and farmed four years; then moved to Kansas, living there three years, and moved and located on his present farm of 160 acres, in 1873. It is well fenced and watered. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Mitchell’s well-earned reputation for fair and honorable dealings has won him many warm and true-hearted friends and neighbors. They had their house burned in 1882, and had no insurance, but their kind neighbors have aided them so that he hardly feels his loss, for which he holds them in grateful remembrance.