Memorial Address—John Lendrum Mitchell. 921 
Hampton, Connecticut, and afterward spent six years in Eng¬ 
land, Germany and Switzerland, devoting part of this time to 
study at Dresden, Munich and Geneva. The outbreak of the 
Civil war brought him home at the age of nineteen. He assist¬ 
ed in raising Company I, Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry, of which he was made second lieutenant when it was 
mustered into the service. Later, he was promoted to a first 
lieutenancy and transferred to Company E of the same regi¬ 
ment. At different times he was assigned to duty on the 
staffs of Generals Sills and Rousseau, and was made ordnance 
officer of division. Among the engagements in which he par¬ 
ticipated were those of Perryville, Murfreesboro, otherwise 
known as Stone River,_ and Hoover’s Gap. He also took part 
in the campaign about Chattanooga. Meantime his eyesight 
became seriously impaired. Incapacitated for further ser¬ 
vice, and threatened with total blindness, he resigned his com¬ 
mission and returned to Milwaukee. 
A natural fondness for country life and the belief that out¬ 
door occupation would repair his shattered health led him to 
make his home upon his beautiful farm of four hundred acres 
in the town of Greenfield. Here he carried out numerous ex¬ 
periments in improved agriculture and engaged extensively in 
the raising of blooded stock. His intelligent interest in pro¬ 
gressive farming was recognized in his election to the presiden¬ 
cy of the Wisconsin State Agricultural society and of the 
Northwestern Trotting Horse Breeders’ association. His 
large and comfortable residence contained a well-selected col¬ 
lection of books in several languages, and some of the choic¬ 
est paintings by American and European artists of the closing 
years of the nineteenth century. 
Mr. Mitchell was greatly interested! in the phase of amateur 
athletics developed by the revival of Scottish games which be¬ 
gan in Milwaukee in 1867 under the auspices of St. Andrew’s 
society. He was a liberal patron of the society for many years 
and was twice elected to< its presidency. 
In politics, Mr. Mitchell was a democrat. He served as a 
member of the state senate in 1872-3 and again in 1876-7. In 
1890, he was elected representative in congress and was re-elect- 
