When John Thomas Mitchell was born on 21 May 1870, in Nebraska, United States, his father, Abraham Eaurstus Mitchell, was 29 and his mother, Eliza Emma Probert, was 23. He married Martha Rose Hamilton on 17 October 1893, in Lewis, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Olympia, Bais City, Negros Oriental, Philippines in 1926 and Thurston, Washington, United States in 1930. He died on 9 March 1939, in Olympia, Thurston, Washington, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Tumwater, Thurston, Washington, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
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 .
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