J. Eric Mitchell

Mitchell Moore has practiced law in Columbia since 1981 as a private attorney in general practice. A Columbia resident since 1965, he graduated from Hickman High School in 1973 and received a B.S.Ed. in 1977. He taught 7th grade history and English in Clinton for one year prior to attending law school at MU. He married native Boone Countian Sharon Campbell in 1987, and she is employed as an Occupational Therapist. They raised one nephew, Joshua Montaigu. His patriot ancestor is Jeremiah Greenman whose previously unknown military journal surfaced during the Bicentennial Year in 1976. The descendants gave it to historians and it is now published as “Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution 1775-1783.” Greenman was one of the first to enlist and one of the last to be mustered out. He joined the Rhode Island militia at 17 and was on Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec. Following a term as a prisoner of war, Greenman reenlisted in the Continental Army as a sergeant. By the end of the war he was a first lieutenant and regimental adjutant. Wounded three times and a prisoner of war twice, he fought in the Battle of Red Bank and helped train the first black military regiment. Return to MAIN Page.