Transcribed from: Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892
pages 402-403

John H. MITCHELL, physician and surgeon, was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, September 6, 1834, son of Pleasant and Sarah Hunt Mitchell, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of North Carolina.

    Dr. J. H. Mitchell was educated in Humansville Academy, Polk county, Missouri, to which place the family moved in 1847.  He graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861.  Previous to this he made the overland journey to California, taking with him a drove of 800 cattle, and after an absence of two years returned East in 1859.  In July, 1861, he entered the Confederate service, and as assistant surgeon was with Dr. Chenoweth in Cotbron's Brigade, under General Price.  At the end of one year failing health compelled him to leave the service.

    Dr. Mitchell had opened an office in Dallas county, Missouri, in March, 1861, and practiced there till July.  After leaving the army he located in Rockwall, Texas, in the fall of 1862, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1871, and in Sweet Springs, Missouri, from 1871 to 1884.  Coming to Dallas, Texas, in 1884, he established himself in practice here, and has since been ranked with the worthy members of the medical profession of Dallas county.

    While in Rockwall he was medical examiner of furloughed soldiers and of those who entered the service there.  At Sweet Springs he was medical examiner for the Hartford Life Insurance Company.  He is a member of the State Medical Association of Texas, and of the National Medical Association of the United States.

    The Doctor was married in 1864 to Mrs. Sarah Vassallo Dye. They have six children:

1. Emma G. Mitchell
2. John Brittan Mitchell, who is in the employ of Meyer Brothers, wholesale druggists, Dallas
3. Lloyd B. Mitchell, who has been with the Crowdus Drug Company five years
4. Joseph Edwin Mitchell
5. Rena Mitchell
6. Natalin V. Mitchell

    Dr. Mitchell is a member of the Masonic fraternity, both of the blue lodge and chapter, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.