Melvin P. Mitchell (Free Mason/Shriner)
IBEW Journeyman Electrical Lineman, Detroit Edison, retired;
Safety Officer, U.S. Department Of Labor, retired;
Spent his boyhood in Detroit, Michigan;
As a young lad while attending school, worked for Kroger & Western Union to help the family during the depression and graduated from Central High School, Detroit Michigan.
Married Miriam Lawry Richards July 3, 1937;
1938 they settle in the Township of Northville, Michigan;
Children:
M. Richard, Fred H., Mary M., & James W.
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will."
My gift is not found in the market place, nor tied with tinsel and bow; My gift is not made by machines nor by men, nor seen in the candles' glow, but silently through the Christmas air cones the gift no season will end; I send to you for now and all time the lasting love of a friend.
Melvin
IBEW Journeyman Electrical Lineman, Detroit Edison, retired;
Safety Officer, U.S. Department Of Labor, retired;
Spent his boyhood in Detroit, Michigan;
As a young lad while attending school, worked for Kroger & Western Union to help the family during the depression and graduated from Central High School, Detroit Michigan.
Married Miriam Lawry Richards July 3, 1937;
1938 they settle in the Township of Northville, Michigan;
Children:
M. Richard, Fred H., Mary M., & James W.
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will."
My gift is not found in the market place, nor tied with tinsel and bow; My gift is not made by machines nor by men, nor seen in the candles' glow, but silently through the Christmas air cones the gift no season will end; I send to you for now and all time the lasting love of a friend.
Melvin
Melvin P. Mitchell (Free Mason/Shriner)
IBEW Journeyman Electrical Lineman, Detroit Edison, retired;
Safety Officer, U.S. Department Of Labor, retired;
Spent his boyhood in Detroit, Michigan;
As a young lad while attending school, worked for Kroger & Western Union to help the family during the depression and graduated from Central High School, Detroit Michigan.
Married Miriam Lawry Richards July 3, 1937;
1938 they settle in the Township of Northville, Michigan;
Children:
M. Richard, Fred H., Mary M., & James W.
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will."
My gift is not found in the market place, nor tied with tinsel and bow; My gift is not made by machines nor by men, nor seen in the candles' glow, but silently through the Christmas air cones the gift no season will end; I send to you for now and all time the lasting love of a friend.
Melvin
IBEW Journeyman Electrical Lineman, Detroit Edison, retired;
Safety Officer, U.S. Department Of Labor, retired;
Spent his boyhood in Detroit, Michigan;
As a young lad while attending school, worked for Kroger & Western Union to help the family during the depression and graduated from Central High School, Detroit Michigan.
Married Miriam Lawry Richards July 3, 1937;
1938 they settle in the Township of Northville, Michigan;
Children:
M. Richard, Fred H., Mary M., & James W.
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will."
My gift is not found in the market place, nor tied with tinsel and bow; My gift is not made by machines nor by men, nor seen in the candles' glow, but silently through the Christmas air cones the gift no season will end; I send to you for now and all time the lasting love of a friend.
Melvin
