From: "Carma Gilligan" Was this O.M. Mitchell, b 1810 KY in Henry County, KY? All of my Mitchell's were born in Henry Co., KY and my William was born 1806, could be a brother if in same county. Please advise. Thanks. Carma, I have Mitchell's from KY also, but this does not say where O.M. was born. This is a very small part of the article. A poor Kentucky boy, born in 1810, he attracted notice by his intelligence and vivacity, and obtaining an appointment to the Military Academy, reached West Point at the age of fifteen, with a knapsack upon his back and twenty-five cents in his pocket. Graduating with honor at the academy, he served awhile in the army, from which, while still a young man, he retired, and in 1840 we find him professor of astromony and mathematics in the Cincinnati College. It goes on from there. Marlene