Researching John Mitchel
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2927 people with the Mitchel surname? In that year Mitchel was ranked number 1373 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Mitchel on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Mitchel and the Mitchel Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 282 people with the Mitchel surname in the UK? Mitchel is now ranked number 3777 for popularity in the UK. |
Mitchel Family Tree Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Mitchel surname in the USA? Mitchel is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on John Mitchel. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Mitchel
John Mitchel
John Mitchel ( 3 November 1815 – 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, author, and political journalist. In the Famine years of the 1840s he was a leading writer for the Nation produced by the Young Ireland group and their splinter from Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, the Irish Confederation. As editor of his own paper, the United Irishman, in 1848 Mitchel was sentenced to 14-years penal transportation, penalty for his advocacy of James Fintan Lalor's programme of co-ordinated resistance to exactions of landlords and to the continued shipment of harvests to England.
Controversially for a republican tradition that has viewed Mitchel, in the words of Pádraic Pearse, as a "fierce" and "sublime" apostle of Irish nationalism, in the American exile into which he escaped in 1853, Mitchel was an uncompromising proslavery partisan of the Southern secessionist cause. In the year he died, 1875, Mitchel was twice elected to the British Parliament from Tipperary on a platform of Irish Home Rule, tenant rights and free education, and twice denied his seat as a convicted felon.
Source: John Mitchel, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Purroy Mitchel
John Purroy Mitchel (July 19, 1879 – July 6, 1918) was the 95th mayor of New York from 1914 to 1917. At 34, he was the second-youngest mayor and he is sometimes referred to as "The Boy Mayor of New York." Mayor Mitchel is remembered for his short career as leader of reform politics in New York as well as for his early death as a US Army Air Service officer in the last months of World War I. Mitchel's staunchly-Catholic New York family had been founded by his paternal grandfather and namesake, John Mitchel, an Ulster Presbyterian Young Irelander who became a renowned writer and leader in the Irish independence movement and as a staunch supporter of the Confederate States.
Reformers praised him. Oswald Garrison Villard, the editor of The Nation, said he was "the ablest and best Mayor New York ever had." Former President Theodore Roosevelt, endorsing Mitchel's re-election bid in 1917, stated that he had "given us as nearly an ideal administration of the New York City government as I have seen in my lifetime." However, even his staunchest supporters admitted he was a poor politician who was too aloof from the ordinary voters and too concerned with "scientific" urban management. He still won in a landslide in 1913 but lost the Republican primary in 1917.
Source: John Purroy Mitchel, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Mitchel
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