Andrew Dinsmore Mitchell and [Unk] Wiestling

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Husband Andrew Dinsmore Mitchell ¹

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           Born: 2 Feb 1824 - York Co, PA 1
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           Died: 26 Mar 1882 - Fort Grant, Graham Co, AZ 1
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Wife [Unk] Wiestling

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         Father: Benjamin Joseph Wiestling, M.D. (1805-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Matilda Eveline Ross (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Dinsmore Mitchell

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He was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and there he passed his early life. He graduated at Jefferson College in 1841, and afterwards spent some time in teaching. In 1844 he matriculated at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he prepared for the ministry. He came under the care of the Carlisle Presbytery in 1849 as a licentiate from the Donegal Presbytery, and at the same time calls were placed in his hands from the united charge of Paxtang and Derry. These he accepted, and in 1850 was ordained and installed pastor of that people, whom he acceptably served until 1874, when at his own request the pastoral relation was dissolved. Subsequently he declined certain positions that were in his offer, but in 1876 he accepted the appointment of post chaplain in the United States army by his friend, the Hon. J. D. Cameron, then Secretary of War. He spent five years at the military prison of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and was transferred in the fall of 1881 to Fort Grant, Arizona, where he died.
Mr. Mitchell had also been stated clerk of the Carlisle Presbytery from 1857 to the year of his appointment as chaplain, 1876, when he resigned, and received the special commendation of the Presbytery for his services. He had been repeatedly sent by his Presbytery as a commissioner to the General Assembly, and in 1868 he was elected moderator of the Baltimore Synod, when the Carlisle Presbytery formed a part of that body. As a preacher he was clear, logical, and instructive, and as a presbyter regular in his attendance and eminently useful. He was very decided in his convictions, both theological and political; he was no less tolerant of the opinions of others, and was a warm friend of the union between the two branches of the Presbyterian Church.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 521.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 549, 603.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 362.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 603.