Mitchel, Elisha
chemist, was born Aug. 19, 1793, in Washington county, Conn.
Being appointed state surveyor of North Carolina, he was the first to discover that the mountains of that state were the highest east of the Rockies. He lost his life upon the Black Dome June 27, 1857, which has since been called Mount Mitchel.
MITCHEL, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, journalist, author, was born in 1839. He is the fiction editor of the American Press association; and the author of Chattanooga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Chickamauga, a Romance of the American Civil War; and Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer and General.
MITCHEL, ORMSBY MAC KNIGHT, soldier, astronomer, author, was born July 28, 1810, in Morganfield, Ky. He was an astronomer of distinction, director of the Dudley observatory at Albany, and a prominent union general in the civil war. He was the author of Planetary and Stellar Worlds; The Orbs of Heaven; Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets, etc.; and Astronomy of the Bible. The direct cause of the establishment of the observatories at Albany, Clinton, Allegheny City, Cincinnati, Washington, and Cambridge, is due to the impetus given to that study by his popular lectures. He died Oct. 30, 1862, in Beaufort, N. C.