Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell

1890 - 1966  (75 years)

• Name	Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell
  Birth	17 Dec 1890	New York City, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1910	Bernards, Somerset, New Jersey, USA
  Death	22 Feb 1966	Far Hills, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
  Notes	Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell was born in New York and was attending Princeton University when he decided to volunteer to serve the French Army in 1914 to fight in a war “that was a crusade against a nation gone mad” (Mitchell 1920, 7). After one year of service, he returned to the United States and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1917. Once the United States entered World War I, C.V.S. Mitchell enlisted in the Army and went through officer training at Officers Training Camp in Plattsburgh, New York. In 1918, he returned to France and was a liaison officer for the French General Noel Edouard de Castelnau. He chronicled this experience in his letters home, which were published as a book titled Letters from a Liaison Officer by Princeton University Press in 1920. C.V.S Mitchell returned to the United States and was a lawyer at his father’s law firm until he reenlisted in 1943. This time, C.V.S. Mitchell was sent to the Mediterranean theater of operations and spent the majority of the war in Casablanca, Oran, and Corsica.
  Person ID	I733	Gibbs Family Tree
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	Clarence Blair Mitchell,   b. 4 Nov 1865, New York, USA d. 26 Sep 1956, Pennbrook, Far Hills, New Jersey, USA (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Lucy Mildred Matthews,   b. 1 Jul 1870, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa d. 1967 (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	4 Dec 1889	Dobbs Ferry, Westchester, New York, USA
  Family ID	F65	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sylvia Peabody,   b. 1 Apr 1893, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 Jul 1975, Bernardsville, Somerset, New Jersey, USA (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	26 Jan 1918	Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
  Children	1. Sylvia Mitchell,   b. 25 Jan 1920, New York City, New York, USA d. 4 Jan 2011, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (Age 90 years)   2. Clarence Peabody Mitchell,   b. 4 Mar 1921, New York City, New York, USA d. 20 Jul 1998, West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 77 years)   3. Marianne Mitchell
  Family ID	F229	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Dec 1890 - New York City, New York, USA Residence - 1910 - Bernards, Somerset, New Jersey, USA Marriage - 26 Jan 1918 - Manhattan, New York, New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell.jpg

  
  

  Histories

  Letters from a liaison officer 1918-1919