My Genealogy Hound

LARMER MITCHELL, policeman, post office Hulton, was born Aug. 14. 1832, in Illinois, a son of John and Jane (Marshall) Mitchell, natives, respectively, of Jamaica and of O’Hara township, this county. His paternal grandfather was John Mitchell; his maternal grandparents, James and Anna Marshall, of Irish descent, settled in this county about one hundred years ago. Larmer’s father was a farmer, and moved to Illinois when about fifteen years old, dying there in 1840; about twelve years later his widow moved to Hulton, marrying James Wood, who is now deceased, and his wife living in Trenton. Our subject received his education in Trenton, and at ten years of age began working for a farmer; at sixteen years of age he went onboard a packet on the Pennsylvania canal, and worked for thirteen years. He enlisted, Aug. 18, 1864, in Co. I, 5th H. A., and was mustered out in June; 1865. Mr. Mitchell has been for two years constable at the soda-works in Harrison township. After being in the oil-fields three years he came to Verona in 1880, and has been watchman, constable and policeman since. He was married, in June, 1854, to Rachel Kuhn, a native of Plum township, daughter of Jacob and Mary Kuhn. They have six children, named as follows: Maggie (Mrs. Robert Walker), Harry S., Lula (Mrs. McCalpin), Bradford, Molly, Annie (Mrs. William Shipman) and Edith. Mr. Mitchell is a member of the G. A. R. and the U. P. Church.