Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

WILLIAM I. MITCHELL, one of the most energetic and enterprising
farmers of Ashland Precinct, is a native of Cass County, and was
born in the above Precinct, March 6, 1948.  His father,
Washington A. Mitchell, of whom a sketch appears in this volume,
is a native of Kentucky, and married Miss Rebecca W. Crow,
daughter of William Crow, and early pioneer of Cass County, and
they have five sons and two daughters; of these our subject is
the second oldest.  He received his schooling in the common
schools of his native precinct, and later, attended the Wesleyan
University, at Bloomington.  He taught school in southern Cass
County, and some in Morgan, for about seven years, doing farming
between school terms.  He purchased a farm in Ashland Precinct,
but sold it in 1878.  He married, on Oct. 21, 1879, to Miss
Reasie A. Skiles, daughter of Ignatius Skiles, deceased, of whom
a sketch and full page portrait appears in this volume.  They
have one daughter, Mabel S., born Aug. 1, 1880.  Mr. Mitchell is
extensively engaged in farming and stock raising, on a portion of
the Skiles estate, comprising about 640 acres of valuable land,
lying about two and one-half miles east of Virginia.

Mitchell Crow Skiles
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