Brief Life History of Charles Eli
When Charles Eli Mitchell was born on 21 November 1868, in Crawford, Illinois, United States, his father, John A. Mitchell, was 23 and his mother, Lucinda Coffman, was 19. He married Octavia Cora Faught on 27 December 1891, in Crawford, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Annapolis, Crawford, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Porterville, Crawford, Illinois, United States in 1943. He died on 3 June 1943, in Robinson, Crawford, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Porterville, Crawford, Illinois, United States.
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- Charles Mitchel in household of John Coffman, "United States Census, 1880"
- Charles Eli Mitchell, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Charles E Mitchell, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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