Evening star., 1925-06-14
Solicitor General,
Recently Appointed,
t Halls From St. Paul
Latest Of Three Officials
Drawn From That City.
He and Mrs. Mitchell
Seeking City Home.

The Solicitor General and Mrs. Will
liam De Witt Mitchell, who have be-
come members of Washington's off,
cial world in the last week, have,
like the great ma jority who enter this
realm, passed their first days in
furious search for a home. This was
interrupted in its early stages by a
visit to Princeton to attend the grad
uating exercises Of their elder son,
William, who, after securing the
B. A, will return to Washington with
his parents and younger brother,
Bancroft Mitchell. who was sopho-
more this year in the same tnstitu-
ton. Mrs. Mitchell has her eye on
one or two domiciles which seemingly
answer all requirements as desir-
able home. and she will settle the
question soon after her return to
Washington Tuesday.
The Solicitor General completes the
triumvirate of eminent denizens of st.
Paul, Mimi. who in comparatively re-
cent days have been appointed to eX
alted places in the public eN. The
associate justice of the Supreme
Court, Mr.. Pierce Butler, was the first
of these, the Secretary of State the
second. and by an interesting CO.
incidence the latest arrival, the So
licitor General. William De Witt
Mitchell, was a former law partner
d
native of his State, having been born
in Winona almost so years ago. His
elder son, William, bears the name of
his father, who was an honored judge
in Winona, and whose memory is
cherished by many residents of that
flourishing city. The present Solicitor
General passed all his boyhood days
and early manhood in his home city,
attended the public schools there and
then went to the academy at Law
renceville, N. j., where he was pre-
pared for Yale. He passed two years
in that seat of learning and later ma
circulated in the University of Mime
sofa, where he received his bachelors
degree and then took up the course in
law. 1t was at this period that Mr..
Mitchell removed to st. Paul to prac-
tice his profession and to climb in
brief time to the foremost legal rank
in the Northwest.
The Solicitor General and Mrs
Mitchell were married almost a quar-
ter of a century ago, though in ap-
pearance neither would indicate so
prolonged an experience with the
responsibilities of life. Mrs. Mitchell
before her marriage was Miss Ger
trude Bancroft, daughter of Mr..
Frank Leslie Bancroft of Boston, and
her mother was Caroline Churchill
both members of distinguished New
unusual social charm, and to this is
added a complete understanding of
the important phases of polite inter
course. She will be a welcome addi-
ton to the ranks of official women,
and she will be, If she follows her
trend in st. Paul, not only an accom-
plished and efficient hostess who will
perform every duty diligently and
promptly. but she will also take over
her share of responsibility toward
those less fortunate.
Mrs. Mitchell relinquishes some
much-loved work in her home city,
ST. Paul, but when her domestic
affairs are running smoothly she will
take over similar activities in
Washington. For Is years she has
been a devoted worker, both in the
national and local sense. in the
Y. W. c. A, and from 1919 to 1924
she was president of the st. Paul
branch, and in 1920 she presented the
report of her section at the national
convention held in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Mitchell has been a student of
public affairs for many years, and for
two years. 1920-22, she was chairman
of national commission to study
problems in leadership in the Y. w.
g. A, and she is at present a mem
Der of the national city committee of
this society. Mrs. Mitchell was one
of the organizers of the st. Paul
Community Chest, and is still a mem
Der of that body, and she is likewise
n member of the ST. Paul Association
of Public and Business Affairs. Dur
ing the World War she was chairman
of the Y. w. C.. A. hostess house at
the aviation school at st. Paul, and
for two years she held the responsible
post of chairman of the surgical dress
ing section of the Red Cross.
The Solicitor General and Mrs
Mitchell are members of the Episcopal
Church and will select place of wor-
ship when the weighty problem Of
securing a home has been satisfac-
torily adjusted. Though both are
members of several clubs in and about
st. Paul, neither is absorbed in club
life or participates much in such
affairs. A member of the i1lustrious
family Of Boston which produced this
Nations most honored historian,
George Bancroft, Mrs. Mitchell is a
member Of the D. A. r. and of the
Massachusetts, Society of the Colonial
Danes.
Though Mrs. Mitchell modestly de-
scribes herself as an amateur musi-
clan. her friends tell of her various
talents in this line and that she will
be great acquisition to musical cir
cles here. Like her husband, she rides
well and plays golf, and she and the
Inen-folk of her family have spent
several Summers hunting big game in
the Canadian Rockies, Mrs. Mitchell,
however, merely as spectator and
the home-keeper of the camp. Such
pleasures will, however, be eliminated
from the coming heated term and the
Solicitor Generals hunting of big
game will be confined to stalking in
the legal sense.