"Among the attractive and lovable women who have lately come to Washington and who bids fair to become a most popular acquisition to official circles, is Mrs. John L. Mitchell, of Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Mitchell, having been elected a member of the present Congress, secured the elegant home of the late Admiral Rogers, and installed his interesting family therein quite early last fall ... Mrs. Mitchell was Miss Harriet Danforth Becker, born and bro't up in South Worcester, Otsego County, New York. She came of Revolutionary stock, her family having owned and occupied the old homestead since before the struggle for Independence, in which her ancestors took part. Every summer they return to the ancestral home, delighted that the preceding generations have kept sacred this valued inheritance. Mrs. Mitchell should be much interested in the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution. Few persons of our country have been so carefully educated as has Mrs. Mitchell. For years she was in the Misses Edward's school at New Haven, Conn., afterwards in Mrs. Ogden Hoffman's school in New York, subsequently sent to France to complete her studies, returning finally to her home at South Worcester. She was married in 1878 to Mr. John Lendrum Mitchell, of Milwaukee, son of the well-known philanthropist Alexander Mitchell. For four years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell traveled in Europe, after which they returned to a beautiful home in the country near Milwaukee, spending their winter in the city at the palatial home of Hon. Alexander Mitchell. After the latter's death his son became his successor in business, and in the affections of his people, and removed permanently into the Mitchell homestead ... Mrs. Mitchell is a living illustration of what ta noble young woman can do. Entering upon the responsible duties of wife and mother when quite young she proved herself equal to the exalted position." [The Otsego Republican (Cooperstown, NY), October 7, 1891, pg. 4, col. 2]