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Mitchell, Robert B – Moeller, Louis Frederick
Mitchell, Robert B
soldier, lawyer, governor, was born April 4, 1823, in Richland county, Ohio. He moved to Kansas in 1856; and was in the territorial legislature in 1857 and 1858. He was state treasurer from 1858 to 1861; and adjutant-general in 1860 and 1861. He raised a regiment of cavalry; and was made brigadier-general in 1862. He was appointed governor of New Mexico in November, 1865. He died Jan. 26, 1882, in Washington, D. C.
Mitchell, Robert G
lawyer, state senator, was born July 15, 1843, in Thomas county, Ga. In 1866 he was elected solicitor-general; in 1884-85 was elected a senator from Georgia; and in 1890 was chosen president of that body.
Mitchell, Samuel Thomas
educator, college president, was born Sept. 24, 1851, in Toledo, Ohio. In 1879 he became principal of Lincoln institute, Jefferson City, Mo., where he remained until 1884; and he has since been president of Wilberforce university.
Mitchell, Thomas R
congressman, was born in Georgetown, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1821 to 1823, from 1825 to 1829, and again from 1831 to 1833.
He died in 1837.
Mitchell, W. P
physician, surgeon, was born March 2, 1862, in Middletown, Ind. In 1883 he graduated from the Medical college of Danville, Ind.; and the following year from the Rush Medical college of Chicago. He is one of the foremost physicians of Wisconsin; has a large practice in Spring Green; and is the medical examiner for five large life insurance companies.
Mitchell, Walter
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1826 in Massachusetts. He is an episcopal clergyman of New York city; and the author of Two Strings to His Bow; Bryan Maurice, a novel; and Poems. Tacking Ship off Shore is the poem by which he is best known.
Mitchell, Will Ward
poet, was born Dec. 1, 1870, near Lexington, Mo.
He is a successful journalist of Higginsville, Mo.; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in the periodical press and several standard collections.
Mitchell, William
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 9, 1793, in Chester, Conn. He was a congregational minister of Texas who published A Doctrinal Guide for Young Christians; and Coleridge and the Moral Tendency of his Writings. He died Aug. 1, 1867, in Corpus Christi, Tex.
Mitchell, William
theater-manager, was born in 1798 in England. In 1836 he came to this country under an engagement with the lessees of the old National theater in New York city, where he made his debut as Jem Baggs in The Wandering Minstrel, and eventually became stage-manager. He died May 12, 1856, in New York city.
Mitchell, William
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-seventh congress. He died in September, 1865, in Macon, Ga.
Moeller, Louis Charles
artist, was born Aug. 5, 1855, in New York city.
He has attained success as a painter; and has exhibited his productions in various exhibitions. He is an associate of the National Academy of Design; and is a pleasing genre painter. Among his principal works are: A Girl in a Snow Storm; Puzzled; Morning News; Stubborn; Bluffing; A Doubtful Investment; and A Siesta.
Moeller, Louis Frederick
artist, was born in 1855 in New York city.
He attended the National Academy of Design, and the academy in Munich, Germany; and has attained a national reputation as a successful artist. He received a medal at the Royal academy in Munich; and received the first prize at the National Academy of Design for the picture entitled Puzzled.