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Below is a family biography included in The History of Polk County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Austin A. Mitchell, treasurer of Polk County, was born in this county September 13, 1858. The Mitchell family traces its ancestry to three brothers, who came from England in an early day. The father of our subject, Stephen C. Mitchell, was born in Blount County, Tenn., in 1831, and came to this county when only four years old, where he grew to manhood and married Martha Hendricks, of Arkansas, by whom he had a family of eight children. He served in the late war as a Union soldier till 1864, when he resigned as second lieutenant. The subject of this sketch received his education in the Bolivar schools, and in the Southwest Baptist College. Having clerked for his father till 1885, he became his partner in business, and in 1886 was elected county treasurer, and re-elected in 1888. In September, 1887, he married Lizzie B. Morrow, and they have one girl. He is a Republican, a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of P. He is the youngest county official, and an efficient business man.
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