Mitchell, John – Mitchell, Samuel Thomas
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.
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 Hipple
lawyer, United States senator, was born June 22, 1835, in Washington county, Pa. He received a publicschool education and the instruction of a private tutor; studied and practiced law, and moved to California and practiced law, first in San Luis Obispo and then in San Francisco. In 1860 he moved to Portland, Ore.; and was elected corporation attorney of Portland in 1861, and served one year.
He was elected as a republican to the state senate in 1862, and served four years, the last two as president of that body. He was commissioned by the governor of Oregon in 1865 lieutenant-colonel in the state militia; and was a candidate for United States senator in 1866, and was defeated in the party caucus by one vote.
He was chosen professor of medical jurisprudence in Willamette university of Salem in 1867, and served in that position nearly four years. He was elected to the United States senate in 1872, and served until 1879. He was again elected to the United States senate in 1885 as a republican, and was re-elected in 1891.
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 Lendrum
soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 19, 1842, in Milwaukee, Wis.
He was a member of the state senate of Wisconsin in 1872-73 and 1875-76. He is vice-president of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company bank, and of the Northwestern National Insurance company in Milwaukee, Wis. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat; and was elected to the United States senate, and took his seat March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.
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, Joseph Daniel
conchologist, legislator, was born Oct. 22, 1848, in Point Comfort. He has served as a representative in the state legislature of Texas, and is the father of the fish and oyster laws of Texas. He has published notes on Texas shells; and is a member of the Texas Academy of Science, and the Smithsonian institution.
Mitchell, Mrs. Lucy Myers
[WRIGHT], archæologist, author, was born in 1845 in Persia. She was an archæologist who spent much of her life abroad. Her only writing, a History of Ancient Sculpture, is one of the best books in English upon Greek art. She died in 1888.
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, Nahum
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Feb. 12, 1769, in East Bridgewater, Mass. From 1811 to 1821 he was judge of the circuit court of common pleas, and afterward chief justice of Massachusetts. From 1798 to 1812 he was a representative in the general court; a representative in congress from 1803 to 1805; and in 1813 and 1814 was state senator. From 1814 to 1820 he was one of the governor's council; and from 1822 to 1827 was treasurer of the state. In 1840 he published a History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; and a volume of sacred music entitled the Bridgewater Collection. He also wrote Grammar of Music. He died Aug. 1, 1853, in Plymouth.
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.
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
mine owner and financier, was born April 11, 1846, in England. In 1864 he emigrated to the United States, and engaged, and obtained a position with the Madison Copper Mining company, and subsequently with various other companies. In 1876 he organized the Mitchell Iron Mine company, and in 1878 discovered what was known as the National Iron mine. In 1883 he began operations in the Negaunee mine; and during the year 1894 they took out of the mine nearly a quarter of a million tons of ore. He is the president and general manager of the Blue mine of Negaunee.
He is president of the First National bank of Hurley, Wis.; was one of the organizers of the Bank of Ishpeming; is a stockholder in the Lincoln National bank of Chicago, and is interested in various other financial institutions.
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
author, was born March 30, 1792, in Bristol, Conn. He was a noted geographer of Philadelphia who, besides publishing a series of geographies, was author also of General View of the World; and New Traveler's Guide. He died Dec. 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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.