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Mitchell, David Bradie

lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 22, 1766, in Scotland. He was elected solicitor-general of Georgia in 1795; and was a member of the legislature in 1796.

He was governor of the state from 1809 to 1813, and from 1815 to 1818. He died April 22, 1837, in Milledgeville, Ga.

Mitchell, Donald Grant

author, was born April 12, 1822, in Norwich, Conn.

He is best known by his earlier and still popular works, Dream Life; and Reveries of a Bachelor, books of a pleasantly sentimental cast. His other works include My Farm at Edgewood; Dr. Johns, a novel; Rural Studies; Fresh Gleaning from the Old Fields of Europe; The Battle Summer, or Paris in 1848; The Lorgnette; Fudge Doings; Seven Stories; Wet Days

Mitchell, Alexander

banker, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1817, in Scotland. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-second and forty-third congresses; and was the dem-at Edgewood; About Old Story-Tellers; ocratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin in 1879. He died April 19, 1887, in New York city.

Mitchell, Anderson

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1800 in Caswell county, N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina legislature; and was a member of congress in 1842 and The Woodbridge Record, a genealogy; Bound Together; A Sheaf of Papers; Out of Town Places, a revision of Rural Studies; English Lands, Letters, and Kings; and American Lands and Letters.

Mitchell, Elisha

geologist, author, was born Aug. 19, 1793, in Washington, Conn. He was an educator of note, and professor of geology in the university of North Carolina since 1825. While exploring the mountain region of North Carolina he lost his life. He is buried on the summit of the mountain bearing his name. He was the author of Elements of Geology; and Reports on North Carolina Geology. He died June 27, 1857, on Black Mountain, N. C.

Mitchell, George E

congressman, was born in Cecil county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1823 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1832. He died June 28, 1832, in Washington, D. C.

Mitchell, Henry

physician, congressman, was born in 1784, in Woodbury, Conn. He moved to New York, and in 1827 he was elected to the legislature of his adopted state. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1835. He died Jan. 12, 1858, in Norwich, N. Y.

Mitchell, J. Walter

educator, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 2, 1853, in Edgefield county, S. C. He attended the Trinity college, Texas; the Vanderbilt university, Tennessee; and the South Carolina college of Columbia. For fifteen years he taught school; and graduated in 1886 in law with the degree of LL. B. For four years he was judge of probate of Lexington county, S. C.; and for two years served with distinction as a representative in the South Carolina state legislature.

Mitchell, James C

congressman, was born about 1790 in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1825 to 1829. He died Aug. 7, 1843, near Jackson, Miss.

Mitchell, James L

soldier, lawyer, was born Sept. 29, 1834, in Shelby county, Ky. He was state's attorney for the nineteenth judicial district of Indiana; and mayor of Indianapolis. He died Feb. 21, 1894.

Mitchell, James S

congressman, was born in York county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1827.

Mitchell, John

congressman, was born in Perry county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. He died in August, 1849, in Beaver, Pa.