Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameAlexander (John) Mitchell, G Grandson
Birth18 Oct 1817, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Death19 Apr 1887, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Burial26 Apr 1887, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
OccupationRailroad builder. Financier & banker. President of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.
Note 1Arrived in USA 28 May 1839 from Scotland. One of the richest men in the mid-West. Millionaire railroad builder & banker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Note 2Presumably born at Mill of Fortie, Ellon, Aberdeenshire though by 1870 there was “scarcely one stone left upon another to mark the place where the old houses stood”.
Note 3He brought 50,000 dollars to the USA to establish an insurance company that fronted for a bank which flourished. “He ran a honest operation and by aged 50 was believed to have a fortune of 20 million dollars (worth about 350 million by 2004 values).
Note 4He and his wife built a ‘magnificent mansion” near downtown Milwaukee and a palatial villa in Florida.
Flags***, Dickson, Mitchell
FatherJohn (Alexander) Mitchell (1763-1847)
MotherMargaret (John) Lendrum (1778-1827)
Marriage1841
SpouseMartha Reed
Birth14 Mar 1818, Westford, Massachusetts, USA
Death14 Feb 1902, Villa Alexandria, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Note 1Croil/Mitchell family records call her Martha Reid. Her tombstone in the St Nicholas area of Jacksonville, Florida, USA (vandalised long before 2008) apparently records her as Margaret Reed Mitchell.
Note 2“A cultured Massachusetts beauty” who founded Malwaukee’s Museum of Fine Arts and helped organise the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association to preserve George Washington’s home.
Note 3She apparently was owed (and lost?) ¢1,000 when an Alexander Mitchell applied for bankruptcy in 1899.
Children
2 MColonel John Lendrum (Alexander) Mitchell, GG Grandson
Birth19 Oct 1842, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Death29 Jun 1904
SpouseBianca Cogswell (?-?)
Marriage1865
Divorce1877
ChildrenDavid F. (John) (1875-?)
---- (John) (1883-?)
SpouseHarriet Danforth Becker (?-?)
Marriage1878
ChildrenCatherine (John) (>1879-?)
Harriet (John) (~1888-?)
John (John) (>1888-1918)
Martha (John) (>1879-?)
Ruth (John) (>1879-1969)
William Lendrum 'Billy' (John) (1879-1936)
Janet (John) (>1879-?)