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Biographical Note
Lennard Harris Mitchell was born on February 24, 1881 in Newcastle, Indiana, but later moved to Washington, D.C., where he lived for most of his life. Mitchell attended Dean Academy in Franklin, Massachusetts, and Columbian University, now George Washington University Law School, in Washington, D.C. He was a director at Liberty National Bank before becoming an attorney. In 1904, Mitchell married Bessie Morris. After Bessie’s death in 1937, that same year Mitchell married his second wife, Edith Koons. Mitchell died on December 21, 1944, in Washington, D.C.