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HOWARD LESLIE MITTEN, editor and proprietor of The Shippensburg Chronicle, was born at New Windsor, Carroll Co., Md., Jan. 13, 1873, son of James Knox and Julia (Warner) Mitten, natives and members of old families of Maryland. At the age of one year he moved with his parents to Smithsburg, Washington Co., Md., where he was reared to manhood. He was educated in the public schools of Washington county, Md., and the High School at Hagerstown, and he taught in the public schools for several years. Mr. Mitten spent several years in Baltimore, Md., and in March, 1897, went to Huntingdon, Pa., where he engaged in business and in May, 1898, became proprietor of the Huntingdon Semi-Weekly News, a paper founded by the late Hugh Lindsay. Mr. Mitten edited the paper until Nov. 1, 1902, when by reason of ill health he was forced to seek a more healthy climate.

On Oct. 6, 1897, Mr. Mitten was married to N. Margaret Morton, daughter of the late Rev. John B. Morton, a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Ohio, at the ome of the late General Ferd Van Derveer, in Hamilton, Ohio. One child, Margaret Morton Mitten, was born Sept. 15, 1898. Mr. Mitten became proprietor and editor of The Chronicle, April 1, 1903, removing from Hagerstown, Md., where he resided with his family several months, having obtained possession of it from Mrs. R. Belle Wolfe, now Mrs. Evans, who for fourteen years carried on the work successfully. The paper is still in a flourishing condition, and continues to be one of the best family papers published in the county.

Mr. Mitten is a member of the Episcopal Church, and one of the founders of St. Andrew’s Mission, established in Shippensburg in May, 1903.