Willis Gemmill Mitchell and Elizabeth Wakeman

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Husband Willis Gemmill Mitchell ¹

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           Born: 30 Sep 1877 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: Willis Alvin Mitchell (1853-1897) 2
         Mother: Sallie Oliphant Gemmill (1858-Aft 1913) 1

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Wife Elizabeth Wakeman ¹

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Children

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1 M Willis Alvin Mitchell ¹

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           Born: 15 Jul 1911 1
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General Notes: Husband - Willis Gemmill Mitchell

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He was educated in the public schools, graduating from Warren high school, class of 1894. After a competitive examina­tion he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, from the Twenty-seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania. Although not yet a graduate when the Spanish war broke out, he made personal request at Washington that he be as­signed to active duty. His request was granted, and he was assigned to duty on the “San Francisco,” later was transferred to the “Ma­ple,” both vessels doing duty in Cuban waters. After the war ended, he finished his course at Annapolis and was duly graduated, class of 1900, and was class president. He remained in active service thereafter, and rose in regular gradations; he was commander of the Third Division of the Atlantic Torpedo flo­tilla in 1909, and held the rank of lieutenant-commander, stationed at Charleston Navy Yard. He was then slated for the duty of senior engineer on the new battleship “Texas,” which was in the course of con­struction. [GPHAV, 877]

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Wakeman

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from New York City

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 877.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 876.