Roy D. Mitchell came to Sandusky, Ohio in 1898 to teach at the Sandusky Business College. In 1907, he became proprietor of the Sandusky Business College. Below is an advertisement for the Sandusky Business College from the January 30, 1908 issue of the Sandusky Star Journal. Principal R.D. Mitchell maintained that young men and women could be successful in life if they had a proper business education.
Roy Mitchell eventually gave up his interest in the Sandusky Business College. He served as Maor of Sandusky from about 1917 to 1919. He was Mayor of Sandusky during the difficult years of the First World War, and during the outbreak of the influenza epidemic. On November 11, 1918, Mayor Mitchell announced that a huge parade would take place in Sandusky to celebrate the end of the Great War.
Former Mayor Roy D. Mitchell died on March 1919, 1934. He and his wife, the former Bertha Hall, are both buried at Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery.
