Hello Logan County researchers... I work at the State Library of Kansas in Topeka. Currently we are putting together an Internet project listing every person who has ever served in the Kansas Legislature. We have all the names up... about 10,000... and now are going back adding information as we find it from various Kansas biographical sources. Today I came across the following biography of a Kansas legislator that I thought someone researching in Logan County might be interested in. It comes from a book called: History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. This biography comes from the Shawnee County section of the history... which happens to be where I live. If anyone out there is interested in this gentleman let me know. I am related to the Mitchell family through marriage. My cousin, George Orr DAY b May 4, 1829 in Licking County, OH. d 1913. buried in Rushsylvania Cem., Logan Co., OH., married Hannah MITCHELL b ca 1829. m Sept. 20, 1851 in Logan County, OH. d 1921. buried in Rushsylvania Cem., Logan Co., OH. (Dau of David Mitchell and Nancy Aiken). Also Mary Ellen DAY b ca 1836 in Ohio married John MITCHELL b Oct. 27, 1837 in OH. Both from Rushsylvania. These Mitchell's are probably related to the Mitchell below from the Cutler history: Cutler's History of Kansas, 1883--- Shawnee County M. R. MITCHELL, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Rush Creek Township, Logan Co., Ohio, November 10, 1835. He was educated in the public schools of his native county, and in Jefferson College, at Cannonsburg, Pa., graduating from the latter institution in 1862. In September of the same year, he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served eighteen months, being subsequently commissioned First Lieutenant of the Twenty-seventh United States Colored Troops. After serving in that capacity about eight months he was promoted Captain, and three months before the close of the war, raised to the rank of Major. He received a wound in the face before Petersburg, Va., shortly after the Burnside mine explosion, and was taken to the Officers' Hospital in New York. He was then in Ohio a short time, before returning to his regiment, being absent in all, about two months. In October, 1865, he returned to Ohio, and commenced the study of medicine at Bellefontaine, and in March, 1868, graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. Dr. Mitchell was married at Bellefontaine, March 10, 1868, to Mary M. Fulton, of Rushsylvania, Logan Co., Ohio. They have two children, Porter M. and Clara. Immediately after his marriage, he came to Kansas and located at Leavenworth, where he remained ten months. He then removed to Fairmount, in the same county, and there remained until 1875. In January of that year he went to Topeka as a member of the State Legislature, and in June of the same year permanently settled there. He is a member of the State Medical Society, of the Eastern District Society, and of the Academy of Medicine and Surgery, being one of the charter members of the latter society. Dr. Mitchell is a member of the G. A. R., and also an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church. ------------------------------------------ Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@kspress.com - 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.kspress.com/wrs/index.htm