Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the Cascades. Vol. II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p. 655-656. REV. H. H. MITCHELL: Rev. H. H. Mitchell, superintendent of the State Training School for Boys at Chehalis, was born in England on the 4th of January, 1866, and came to America in 1904. His early education was acquired in the Scholar Cancelarii at Truro, England, and later he attended Oxford University, from which he was graduated in 1888 with the degree of B. A. He was educated for the ministry and was ordained at Truro by Bishop Wilkinson of the Church of England, June 1, 1890. He was ordained a priest on the 1st of June, 1891, and was curate of St. Andrew's church at Calstock and Okehampton, England, for six years. During the following eight years he was chaplain to the royal navy on board different battleships and for one year was on the Queen Victoria's guard ship. As previously state, Rev. Mitchell came to the United States in 1904 and located at Granite City, Illinois, as an Episcopalian missionary. Later he accepted a call from the Episcopal church at Jacksonville, that state, where he served as rector for five years, and in August, 1913, came to Washington, becoming rector of the church of his denomination at Colfax. On the 1st of January, 1915, Rev. Mitchell was appointed superintendent of the Boys Training School at Chehalis, which position he has since so acceptably filled. There are about two hundred and fifty acres of cultivable land belonging to the school and upon the place have been erected ten good and substantial buildings. At the present time there are about one hundred and seventy boys in the school, while thirty have recently been paroled. About fifteen per cent of those in the school are poor boys dependent upon the state and are here given a home with useful training which will fit them for good positions after leaving the institution. The scholastic work is from the primary department to the eighth grade inclusive. There is a bakery, tailor shop, shoe shop, carpenter shop, machine shop and blacksmith shop, with a competent instructor at the head of each department, and the land is in charge of a good farmer and his assistant who instruct the boys in agricultural pursuits. In 1916 the boys built a new greenhouse and a large store room and root house. The ministers of the local churches alternate in holding services every Sunday afternoon. On the 1st of January, 1900, at Plymouth, England, Rev. Mitchell was united in marriage to Miss Pauline Voivenelle, who is of French descent, and they have become the parents of four children, Pauline, Herbert, Maurice and Constance. Rev. Mitchell is a Knight Templar Mason, belonging to the blue lodge of Colfax, Washington, and the commandery at Chehalis. He labors untiringly for the boys under his care and feels that the state is doing a great work in its endeavor to convert these boys into good and respectable citizens of some value to the world. He and his family live in the home and his wife superintends the housekeeping for the entire institution. They are people of the highest culture and refinement and have made a host of warm friends since coming to Chehalis. Mitchell Wilkinson Voivenelle = ENG>IL>Lewis-WA