As the O & M railroad was surveyed, the owners of the land arranged for one of the surveyors, Ormsby McKnight Mitchel ( 1810 – 1862 ), a West Point graduate and professor at the University of Cincinnati, to plat their new town in exchange for naming it for him.

A native of Kentucky, Ormsby Mitchel grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, and was also an attorney and notable astronomer.

A scene from the movie The Godfather was filmed in Mitchel Field, which is part of Uniondale.

Mitchel Caya was the first resident of Lynxville in 1848.

He also served with the Naval Test Board at Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, and was a familiar figure in air speed record attempts in the New York area.

John Mitchel (; 3 November 1815 – 20 March 1875 ) was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist.

Mitchel was called to Derry, where he remained for some four years, when he received the " call " from both Newry and Armagh.

At the age of four, John Mitchel was sent to a classical school, run by an old minister named Moor, nicknamed " Gospel Moor " by the students.

Mitchel did not get on with McNeil, who considered the topics that Mitchel was reading ( Caesar ) too advanced for him.

Mitchel also met at the school his lifelong friend, John Martin, who was to experience and share in much of his later career.

Their second, James, born in February 1840, was to be the father of the New York Mayor John Purroy Mitchel.

At this time Mitchel was a member of a literary society, and contributed essays from time to time.

John Mitchel took an active part in the preparation, and though violence was anticipated, Newry then being a stronghold of the Orange Order, it went off peacefully.

Around 1839, Mitchel suffered his first attack of asthma, which was to trouble him for the rest of his life.

In 1840 Mitchel completed his apprenticeship, and was sworn in as an attorney.

John Mitchel was often employed by the Catholics in the legal proceedings arising out of these affrays.

Because of this he was nicknamed " Papist Mitchel.

It was with Davis's encouragement that Mitchel wrote his first book, Life of Hugh O ' Neill, which Davis never got to see published.

Carlyle described a dinner at Mitchel's house in 1846, saying that Mitchel was " a fine elastic-spirited young fellow, whom I grieved to see rushing to destruction palpable by attack of windmills, but upon whom all my persuasions were thrown away ".

Carlyle later said, when Mitchel was on trial, " Irish Mitchel, poor fellow … I told him he would most likely be hanged, but I told him, too, that they could not hang the immortal part of him.

In the Prospectus it was announced that the paper would be edited by John Mitchel, " aided by Thomas Devin Reilly, John Martin of Loughorne and other competent contributors.

the Earl of Clarendon, Englishman, calling himself Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant — General and General Governor of Ireland ," Mitchel stated that the purpose of the journal was to resume the struggle which had been waged by Tone and Emmet, the Holy War to sweep this Island clear of the English name and nation.

Only 16 editions of The United Irishman had been produced when Mitchel was arrested, and the paper suppressed.

The advent of regional shopping malls such as the one at nearby Roosevelt Field, the demise of nearby Mitchel Air Force Base in 1961 as well as the changing demographics put the retail trade in the village into a downward spiral that it was unable to recover from during the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1857, the Whig quarrelled with the radical Southern Citizen, published by Knoxville businessman William G. Swan and Irish Patriot John Mitchel, and Brownlow spent at least one night parading in front of Swan's home while brandishing a revolver.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

Purroy was born in New York City to James Mitchel, one of three brothers to fight for the Confederacy and the only to survive the War, despite multiple injuries including the loss of his arm.

Finnigan returned to Australia after the war, but opted to settle in England, working his passage back home as a seaman in 1927, the ship was called the Sir William Mitchel and was the last sailing to sail from Australia to England, Alfred was one of the only crew who were working their passage who could read and therefore wrote the ships log, this log can be found in the Greenwich maritme museum in London.

* 1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.

We had to consider all this — to look at the magnitude of the crime, and to look also at the consideration that if this were not the first case brought under the Act, our duty might have obliged us to carry out the penalty it awards to the utmost extent ; but taking into consideration that this is the first conviction under the Act — though the offence has been as clearly proved as any offence of the kind could be — the sentence of the court is that you, John Mitchel, be transported beyond the seas for the term of fourteen years.

Tereshkova's life and spaceflight were first examined ( in the west ) in the 1975 book: It Is I, Sea Gull ; Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space by Mitchel R. Sharpe and then again in greater detail of her life and spaceflight in the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea by Colin Burgess and Francis French, including interviews with Tereshkova and her colleagues.

* Brainstorm ( EP ), the first extended play by Disney star Mitchel Musso

In October 1942, Craigie, then a colonel, became the first pilot of the Armed Forces to fly a jet-propelled plane when he piloted the XP-59 on its initial flight at Muroc Dry Lake, California, March 1943 he was assigned briefly to the 1st Fighter Command at Mitchel Field, New York, and the following month took command of the Boston Air Defense Wing in Massachusetts.

Mitchel helped establish observatories for the United States Navy and at Harvard University. He also published the first monthly magazine in the United States devoted specifically to astronomy.

* A persistently bright region near the Mars south pole that was first observed by Mitchel in 1846 is named in his honor – ' The Mountains of Mitchel '.

* Charles Mitchel, RTÉ's first newsreader

On 1 January 1962 Charles Mitchel read the first television news bulletin at 6: 01pm.

* 18 August-Charles Mitchel, actor and television newsreader, read the first Telefís Éireann news bulletin in 1961 ( born 1920 ).

* 8 November – RTÉ's first newsreader, Charles Mitchel, reads his last news bulletin.

* 8 November-Charles Mitchel, actor and television newsreader, read the first Telefís Éireann news bulletin in 1961 ( died 1996 ).

Charles Mitchel read the first bulletin and remained the station's chief newsreader until his retirement in 1984.