University of Michigan with a Bachelor in Philosophy degree in 1880. Newspaper editor After graduating from Michigan, Mitchell was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in December 1881. However, he spent his career in the newspaper business rather than as a lawyer. Mitchell began his newspaper career working with his brother at the St. Cloud Journal-Press. He was the assistant editor of the St. Cloud Journal-Pres from 1881 to 1894. In 1894, he purchased the Douglas County News (Douglas County, Minnesota) and the Alexandria Post (Alexandria, Minnesota). He consolidated the two newspapers into the Alexandria Post News and became its publisher and editor. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Mitchell was living in Alexandria, Minnesota, with his wife, Ella, and their daughter, Elizabeth. His occupation was listed at that time as an editor. He was the publisher of the Alexandria Post-News during its entire run from 1894 to 1920. Mitchell later became the editor of the Fairbanks, Minnesota News. From approximately 1906 to 1920, Mitchell was the editor of the Duluth News Tribune. Under Mitchell's editorship, the Duluth News Tribune was one of the first newspaper to advocate the United States' entry into World War I. He was also twice elected as the president of the Minnesota Editorial Association. In 1920, Mitchell accepted the position of editor-in-chief with the Washington Herald in Washington, D.C. Family and death In August 1884, Mitchell was married to Elora Thompson (born 1864) of Butler, Pennsylvania. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Ann Mitchell (born March 20, 1891). He was later married to Rizpah DeL. Mitchell. They had a daughter (Adade) and a son (Scott). Mitchell died in January 1922 at his home in Washington, D.C. According to an obituary in The New York Times, Mitchell's death was due indirectly to a nervous breakdown. Another newspaper attributed his death to "heart trouble following an illness of a few weeks." References 1856 births 1922 deaths 19th-century players of American football Michigan Wolverines football players American newspaper editors Editors of Washington, D.C., newspapers People from Alexandria, Minnesota People from Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania