Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Zachariah Mitchell

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Zachariah Mitchell, contractor and brick manufacturer, of Bentonville, 
Ark., was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., in 1837, and is a son of 
James M. and Lucinda (Corbin) Mitchell, who were born in Kentucky and 
Indiana in 1810 and 1817, respectively. James M. Mitchell was of 
English and Dutch lineage, and when a child was taken to Ohio, and 
thence to Tippecanoe County, Ind., where he married Miss Corbin. In 
1840 he located in Harrison County, Mo., where his wife, who is of 
Irish descent, died in 1884. Zachariah Mitchell is the third of eight 
children, and was only eight years old when his parents moved to 
Missouri. He grew to manhood on a farm, and in 1857 was married to 
Miss Martha H. McIntosh, a native of Tennessee, born in 1841. They 
have six children living: Alice, wife of Thomas Mitchell; William H., 
James, Charles, Aaron and -. In 1867 Mr. Mitchell became a citizen of 
Benton County, Ark. His first investment in real estate was forty 
acres of land about five miles from the county seat. He sold this 
land, however, in 1872, and moved to Bentonville, and began working in 
a brick yard, and three years later engaged in the manufacture of 
brick, which has been his business off and on ever since. In 1887 he 
manufactured 120,000 brick and this year (1888) has made 260,000. He 
is a Democrat in his political views, and was a strong Union man 
during the war. He is a Master Mason, and a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. His wife died in 1887, and in 1886 he was married to 
Mrs. Martha E. (Gilespie) Lee, who was born is Mississippi, and is a 
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.