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 Middle name is Meirs on Scranton church records.
 It was quite a challenge to find the right James W. Mitchell, among the
 many James Mitchell's around the right age and place.
 Here's how the pieces came together.  The marriage record for James
 and Elizabeth listed his father's name as David, and his occupation as
 Joiner.  James' occupation, plumber & gas fitter, matches wtih his occupation
 in the USA.  However, there is no suitable James Mitchell, living with a David
 Mitchell, anywhere in the British census records.
 We had a few extra bits of information.  His middle initial is W. in several
 of the US census records.  Also, his father's birthplace is listed as Scotland.
 Looking at the GRO index, we see James Wears Mitchell, birth registered
 in the first quarter of 1862, which is a partial match for his birth from the
 1900 census, which shows October 1861.  In the 1881 census, there is a
 James Mitchell, living with his grandmother, Jane Wears, clearly the same
 James.   Backtracking Jane Wears, we find her daughter Ann and husband
 David Mitchell, born in Scotland, living with her in 1861 and 1871.  Oddly, James is not with
 them, but with an uncle, Peter Mitchell, in 1871.  Backtracking David we find
 him with Peter in Scotland in 1851 and 1841. Also, we find the marriage record
 for David Mitchell and Ann Wears in 1855, and a final piece is that David's
 occupation in 1871 is Joiner, matching the marriage record for James and
 Elizabeth.  A lot of circumstantial evidence, but it all seems to hang together.