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William A. Mitchell

ND                  Address Unknown, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

William A. Mitchell was recorded in the 1862  Deaths Registered in the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Bristol County for the year Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Two.

Sex—Male

Condition—Single

Age—25 Years, 6 Months

Death—

Residence—Alexandria, Virginia

Occupation—Daguerreotypist

Place of Birth—Fairhaven

Parents names—Seth A. Mitchell and Cordelia Mitchell.

William A. Mitchell is not recorded in other photographic directories as being active in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.  Craig’s Daguerreian Registry does list a William A. Mitchell, Jr. as an artist in Boston in 1858 at 49 Tremont Street.  If his fathers name was Seth A. he would not be a Jr.  It is unknown at this time if he was a daguerreotypist in Alexandria, Virginia.