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Mitchell, John

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1794, in Chester, Conn.

He was a congregational minister of Stratford, Conn.; and the author of Letters to a Disbeliever in Revivals; Notes from Over the Sea; Reminiscences of College Scenes and Characters; My Mother; and Rachel Kell, or the Diamond. He died April 28, 1870, in Stratford, Conn.

Mitchell, John Ames

journalist, author, was born in 1845 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of New York city; founder of Life in 1883, and its editor from that date. He is the author of The Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert; The Romance of the Moon; The Last American; Amos Judd, a novel; and That First Affair, and Other Stories.

Mitchell, John Grant

soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 6, 1838, in Piqua, Ohio. He was commissioned brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1865, and brevetted major-general of volunteers, to date from March 13, for special gallantry in the battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 17, 1865.

Mitchell, John Kearsley

physician, author, poet, was born May 12, 1798, in Shepherdstown, Va. He was a physician of Philadelphia, of eminence as a medical lecturer; and the author of Indecision, and Other Poems; St. Helena, a poem; Remote Consequences of Injuries of Nerves; Cryptogamic Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers; and Five Essays on Fevers. He died April 4, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa.; and his death was sincerely mourned.

Mitchell, John Inscho

soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born July 28, 1838, in Tioga, Pa. He was district attorney of Tioga county, Pa., from 1868 to 1871; and was a representative in the state legislature from 1872 to 1876. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortyfifth and forty-sixth congresses; and was elected a senator of the United States from Pennsylvania for the term of six years from March 4, 1881.

Mitchell, John Murray

lawyer, congressman, was born March 18, 1858, in New York city. In 1889 he entered into law partnership with his two brothers, Edward and William, the former of whom was United States attorney for the southern district of New York by appointment of President Harrison. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses from New York as a republican.

Mitchell, Maria

astronomer, was born Aug. 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Mass.

She was a distinguished astronomer, and professor at Vassar college in 1865. Her scientific papers have not been collected.

She died June 28, 1889, in Lyons, Mass.

Mitchell, Marion J

educator, poet, was born Sept. 4, 1836, in Buffalo, N. Y. She received a thorough education, and inherited literary tastes from her parents. She has contributed extensively both prose and verse to current literature; and is the author of a volume of poems.

Her poetic work shows natural powof imagination and expression. Her poems have been given a place in several standard collections, and are a valuable acquisition to the literature of the times. ers

Mitchell, Nathaniel

congressman. He was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1786 to 1788.

Mitchell, Neal

physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 21, 1855, in Jacksonville, Fla. He attended the Maine Wesleyan university, Lapham institute, Amherst college, and several medical colleges of New York and Brooklyn, and in Berlin, Germany. In 1888 he was president of the board of health in the yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville; and is one of the foremost physicians and surgeons in the south.

Mitchell, Robert

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1835.