John J. Mitchell (banker)
John James Mitchell (1853–1927) was an American banker, president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and Illinois Merchants Trust Company. Biography. John J. Mitchell was born in Alton, Illinois on November 3, 1853, the son of fellow banker William Hamilton Mitchell (1817–1910), and his first wife Lydia. He joined his father's Trust & Savings Bank as a messenger boy in 1873, and was president from 1880 to 1923, then president of its successor, the Illinois Merchants Trust Company, from 1923 until his death in 1927. He married Mary Louise Jewett in 1890, and they had  five children. His son, the banker John J. "Jack" Mitchell, married J. Ogden Armour's daughter Lolita in 1920 at the family's estate in Lake Forest. His half sister Hortense Lenore Mitchell (1871–1962) married the British architect, art dealer and collector Arthur Acton (1873–1953). John J. Mitchell died in Libertyville, Illinois on October 29, 1927, from injuries suffered in a car accident which also claimed the life of his wife. He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.