Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Henderson Mitchell

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Henderson Mitchell, of the firm of Mitchell Bros., druggists, grocers 
and hardware merchants at Bloomfield. Ark., was born in the town in 
which he now resides March 17, 1856, and is a son of George Washington 
and Mary (Londagin) Mitchell, who were born in Tennessee. The father 
was a farmer, and is now residing at Bloomfield, Ark. He is a son of 
Nelson and Elizabeth Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell is a member of the 
Missionary Baptist Church, and a daughter of John and Susan Londagin. 
Henderson Mitchell grew to manhood and was educated in Arkansas. He 
was first educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty 
years entered the State University of Arkansas, and graduated from the 
normal course in 1879. He then engaged in teaching school, and in 1880 
went to Durango. LaPlata Co., Colo., where he remained six years, the 
first three years engaged in freighting, and the three last years had 
charge of the lumber yard and planing-mill of T. C. Graden & Co. He 
returned to Arkansas in 1886, and engaged in the drug, grocery and 
hardware business, his brother Franklin becoming his partner. In 1887 
he was married to Miss Ella Douglass, and by her is the father of one 
child, Emma. Mr. Mitchell began life without means, but his business 
ventures in the West met with a fair degree of success, and by his own 
efforts he has placed himself in comfortable circumstances. He belongs 
to the Masonic fraternity. His wife is a daughter of H. and Emma 
Douglass, of Benton County.