Missemer, J. R – Mitchell, James Tyndale
Missemer, J. R
journalist, was born March 24, 1851, in Mount Joy, Pa. He is the editor and publisher of The Advocate of Steelton, Pa.; and for the past twenty years has been engaged in journalism. In his early days he taught school; at the age of twenty-two years was elected a justice of the peace; and in 1874 became editor of the Milton Grove News. In 1878 he established the Mount Joy Star and News, and during the following ten years also conducted a newspaper syndicate. In 1888 he purchased The Advocate, which he still edits and publishes with the assistance of his son, George W. Missemer.
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.
Mitchell, Abram W
physician, surgeon, legislator, was born Feb. 8, 1862, in Lempster, N. H. He has served with distinction as a member of the New Hampshire state legislature, and was on several important committees.
Mitchell, Annie Maria
author, was born in 1847 in Massachusetts. She is a writer of religious juveniles, among which are Martha's Gift; and Freed Boy in Alabama.
Mitchell, Charles Burton
United States senator, was born Sept. 19, 1815, in Gallatin, Tenn. He was elected a senator in congress from Arkansas for a term of six years, commencing March 4, 1861, but was expelled by the senate July 11, 1861. He died Sept. 20, 1864, in Washington, Ark.
Mitchell, Charles F
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841.
Mitchell, Charles Le Moyne
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1844, in New Haven, Conn. He was a representative in the Connecticut state legislature in 1878; and was elected a representative from Connecticut to the forty-eighth congress.
He was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Mitchell, David
soldier, state legislator, was born July 17, 1742, in Cumberland county, Pa. He fought throughout the entire revolutionary war, serving as a major in Colonel John Watts's battalion in the battle of Long Island.
He represented his county in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1786 till 1805, and served as a presidential elector in 1813, and in 1817. In 1800 he was appointed brigadier-general of the militia of Cumberland and Franklin counties. He died May 25, 1818, in Juniata, Pa.
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, Alfred
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1841 in England. In 1879 he emigrated to the United States; and has since attained success as an able lawyer in the state of New York. For sixteen years he served in various capacities for the Equitable Mercantile company of New York city, and is now dean of its legal staff. He served as a police justice of Whitestone, Long Island, N. Y.; and his name is frequently mentioned for the office of justice for his division of the recently enacted Greater 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, Edward Coppee
lawyer, author, was born July 24, 1826, in Savannah, Ga. He was a real estate lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Separate Use in Pennsylvania; Contracts for Land Sales in Pennsylvania; and Equitable Relations of Buyer and Seller.
He died Jan. 25, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mitchell, Edward Cushing
clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 20, 1829, in East Bridgewater, Mass. He is a baptist clergyman and educator; president of Leland university of New Orleans since 1887; and the author of Les Sources du Nouveau Testament; Hebrew Introduction; Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the New Testament; and The Critical Handbook.
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, Henry
hydrographer, author, was born Sept. 16, 1830, in Nantucket, Mass. He is a hydrographer of prominence, among whose scientific monographs are Physical Hydrography of the Maine Coast; The Estuary of the Delaware; and Reclamation of Tide Lands.
Mitchell, Hinckley Gilbert
educator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 22, 1846, in Lee, N. Y. He is a methodist clergyman and educator; professor at Wesleyan university since 1884; and the author of Final Constructions of Biblical Hebrew; Hebrew Lessons; Amos, an Essay in Exegesis; and The Pentateuch.
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, James Tyndale
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 9, 1834, in Belleville, Ill. He attended the Harvard university and the university of Pennsylvania Law school. During 1862-87 he was editor-in-chief of the American Law Register; during 1871-88 was judge of common pleas at Philadelphia; and since 1889 has been justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He is a vice-provost of the Law academy of Philadelphia; and president of the council of the Pennsylvania Historical society. He is the author of A History of the District Court; Mitchell on Motions and Rules; and other works..