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ROBERT B. MITCHELL
| Robert B. Mitchell of Linn county, was born in Richland county, Ohio, April 4.1828. He was educated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, and then studied law. During the Mexican war he served in the Ohio volunteers as first lieutenant, and on its conclusion resumed the practice of his profession. In 1866 he moved to Kansas, settling at Paris, Linn county, in 1867; was a member of the territorial house of representatives. 1867 and 1858; was a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention of March, 1858; member of the free-state convention, at Topeka, April 28, 29, 1868 to nominate officers under the Leavenworth constitution. On May 19, 1866, he gathered a posse of men, among them Montgomery, and started for Missouri, in pursuit of the Hamilton party, which committed the Marais des Cygnes murders. On February 11, 1859, he was appointed territorial treasurer. He was a candidate for member of Congress at the Democratic convention at Lawrence. October 25, 1859. He was appointed colonel of the Second regiment, Kansas volunteer infantry, mustered in June 20, 1861 and later transferred to the Second Kansas volunteer cavalry; was commissioned brigadier-general by the President April 8, 1862; was appointed governor of New Mexico in 1866, and served until 1869; was a delegate to the Liberal Republican convention at Topeka in 1872, and received from it the nomination for congressman. Most of the time after serving as governor of New Mexico he lived in Washington. D. C. where he died January 26, 1882.
(Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 212) |