Jim Mitchell

Jim Mitchell (James Douglas Mitchell) was born at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. His father Douglas was originally a research engineer with Formica Corporation in Cincinnati-his mother Linda was a high-school English teacher. However, when Jim was six months old, his father decided he didn't want Jim growing up on the Cincinnati streets. Douglas then quit his Formica engineer's job. He built a homemade trailer, attached it to the back of their family car (an old 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook club coupe) loaded up their belongings and moved his family to Bartlesville, Oklahoma to go into the oil & gas producing/ranching/farming business with Jim's grandfather-Orville Anderson Mitchell...(Bartlesville is located on the eastern edge of the Osage Nation Reservation.) As a result, from an early age Jim was either drilling new oil and gas wells (usually with antiquated "cable-tool" oilfield drilling rigs) "pulling" wells (doing well maintenance work on existing older wel