Sacramento County
Biographies
RICHARD EARL
MITCHELL
RICHARD EARL MITCHELL.--A dairyman who is thoroughly familiar with California conditions affecting the highest and best production in his field, and whose accomplishments have advanced the husbandry in the Golden State, is Richard Earl Mitchell, one of the highly esteemed citizens of Wilton. He was born in Gilpin County, Colorado, on February 7, 1891, the son of Richard and Ellen (Jose) Mitchell, both natives of England, who came to the United States when they were young. His father lived in Canada for a while, and also mined in Alaska. He took up mining in Colorado, and in Oregon, and followed the hard game in California, until recently; and our subject is living with his father, on the latter’s place at Wilton. There were three children in the family. Mildred is deceased. Maude is Mrs. Harry Back, and resides in England. Richard Earl is the subject of our story.
Richard Earl Mitchell went to school in Colorado, Oregon and California, for when he was six years old, his father moved to Gold Hill, Ore., mined there for a while, and then Earl and his mother went back to Colorado, where they settled for a while at Central City, and then moved to Denver. In 1904, however, they came back to the Coast and California, and located in Mono County, where the father was mining, having come to California from Oregon, and he later went into Placer County, for the same purpose. In 1914 he came to Sacramento, and eight years later he bought a ranch of ten acres at Wilton where, with the aid of his son, Earl, he has since conducted a small dairy. Earl Mitchell himself mined for two years in Placer County, and when the family came to Sacramento, he started working in the store department of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and was with that corporation for five years. At the outbreak of the late war, he joined the Spruce Division, and after the armistice, returned to his father on the ranch at Wilton, and has since then devoted himself to the scientific study of dairying, making it his pride to assist his father in maintaining one of the most sanitary, up-to-date diaries in the county. He also maintains an interest in politics and votes regardless of the hampering of party ties. He belongs to the Sacramento Post of the American Legion.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages
993-994. Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.