Their son, Austin Davis Mixsell, returned to Northampton and spent the last quarter of a century of his life in Bethlehem, becoming an important official of the Bethlehem Steel Company, an officer of such high position that during the hour of his funeral all work in the great plant was stopped and for ten minutes the employees and officials stood with bowed heads in memory of their fallen vice-president and president of a subsidiary company. He was a young man, but little over forty-two, yet had accomplished worthily, and for many years had been the trusted business associate of that body of able men constituting the Bethlehem Steel Company.

Austin Davis Mixsll was born in Easton, Pennsylvania; October 20, 1873, and died in the city of Bethlehem, January 15, 1916. He obtained his early education in the Easton schools, and after the family moved to Philadelphia he continued his studies in the Penn Charter School of that city, an institution founded by the Society of Friends. For a year after leaving school he was employed in the law office of Franklin B. McGowen, of Philadelphia, but in 1892 he returned to his native county, locating in Bethlehem, where he accepted a position in the freight office of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, remaining there for six years. In 1898 he entered the service of the Bethlehem Steel Company as an attache of the general superintendent's office, and was assigned to duty in the sales department. He advanced rapidly, and as representative of that department in New York City he completed so fine a record that in 1909 he was promoted to the highest position in the sales department of the company, general sales agent. For six years he was head of the sales department, then, in 1915, he was elected a member of the board of directors and vice-president of the company. When later the Dietrich & Hawey Machine Company, at Baltimore, was absorbed by the Bethlehem Steel' Company, Mr. Mixsell was made president of that company, an office he filled until his death. In all the positions he was called upon to fill he displayed high ability, and in his private life, honor and integrity distinguished him. He was a man of genial, friendly, and generous nature and one whom to know was to love and esteem. He was one of the strong men of the Bethlehem Steel Company, and in warmest eulogy his associates of that company testify to his worth.

He was a member of the Union League and Manufacturers' Club, of Philadelphia; the Railroad Engineers' and Lawyers' Club, of New York City; the Pomfret Club, of Easton; the Northampton County Country Club; the Lehigh Country Club, of Allentown; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the American Society for Testing Materials, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Iron and Steel Institute (executive committee), and the American Steel Founders' Society.

When the 17,000 men employed at the Bethlehem Steel Works in Bethlehem stood with reverent mien for ten minutes and the great plant was quiet for the same period, it was a wonderful compliment and token of esteem to a fallen comrade, Austin Davis Mixsell. At the funeral services were all the company officials, headed by Charles M. Schwab. The services were held at the home and were conducted by Dean F. W. Beckman, rector of the Church of the Nativity, Pro-Cathedral of South Bethlehem. The honorary pallbearers were: Charles M. Schwalb, Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Company; Archibald Johnston, vice-president; H. S. Snyder, vice-president; C. A. Buck, vice-president; B. H. Jones, treasurer; F. A. Schick, auditor; W. F. Roberts, superintendent; R. F. Randolph, superintendent; J. E. Mathews, manager of the ordnance department; W. N. Tobias, purchasing agent; G. H. Blakely, manager of the structural steel sales; James H. Ward, secretary to the chairman; and John D. Hagenbach, assistant to the president.