MITCHELL
MITCHELL
of Wilberforce university and professor of intel-
lectual philosophy and logic there in 1884. He
was the first president of the Missouri State
Teachers' association, held at Jefferson City in
1875, and was a vice-president of the educational
congress at the World's Columbian exposition of
181)3. He was a member of the general confer-
ence of the African M. E. church in 1884, and was
elected president of the American Association of
Educators of Colored Youth. The honorary de-
gree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the State
University of Kentucky in 1889.
MITCHELL, Silas Weir, physician and author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 15, 1829 ; son of Dr. John Kearsley and Sarah Matilda (Henry) Mitchell. He matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1848, but severe ill- ness compelled him to leave near the close of his senior year. He was grad- uated from Jefferson Medical college in 18- 50, and settled in practice in Philadel- phia, gaining world- wide recognition as a specialist on nervous diseases, and being also well known through his research- es in physiology and toxicology. He was connected at various times with several hospitals and dispensaries in Philadelphia as physician or consulting physician, and during the civil war was in charge of Turner's Lane U.S. hospital, established for the treatment of injuries to the nervous system, and was also an inspector of the sanitary condition of the army. "He was elected a member and officer in the prin- cipal medical societies in America ; a correspond- ing member of the British Medical association, 1860 ; of the Societe Academique de la Loire In- ferieure, 1873 ; of the London Medical society, 1878 ; honorary meml)er of St. Andrews Medical Graduate association, 1867 ; foreign associate of the Medical Society of Norway, 1871 ; a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Pliiladel- phia, 1853 ; the American Pliilological society, 1862 ; the American Academy of Arts and Sci- ences, 1865 ; the National Academy of Sciences, 1865, and the American Philosophical society, 1865 ; a fellow of the College of Physicians, Phil- adelpliia, 1856, and twice president ; a triLstee of tl>e University of Pennsylvania, 1875, and of the Carnegie Institution on its foundation 1902. He was married, first in 1858 to Mary Mid- dleton, daughter of Alfred Elwyn and Mary
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(Middleton) Mease, who died in 1864 ; and sec-
condly in 1875 to Mary, daughter of Gen. Thomas
and Maria (Biddle) Cadwalader of Philadelphia.
Dr. Mitchell received the honorary degree of
LL.D. from Harvard, 1886, Edinburgh, 1890, and
Princeton, 1895, and that of M.D. from the Uni-
versity of Bologna, 1888. His medical papera
written between 1850 and 1900 include upwards
of 150 titles and record scientific investigations
of marked importance and originality. He be-
came even more widely known, however, through
his works of fiction and poetry. Among his more
important contributions to scientific literature
may be noted : Researches on the 'Venom of the
Rattlesnake (ISQO); Gunshot Wounds and Other
Injuries of Nerves (1864); Reflex Paralysis (1864);
On Malingering, Especially in Regard to Sinmla-
tion of Diteases of the Nervous System (1864) ; On
Injuries of the Nerves and their Consequences
(1872); Fat and Blood and How to Make Them
(1877); Diseases of the Nervous System, Especially
in Women (1881); Clinical Lectures on Nervous
Diseases (1890). His lighter works, chiefly
w^orks of fiction and poems, include: In War
Time, novel (1862) ; Wonderful Stories of Fuz-buz,
the Fly, and Mother Orahem, the Spider (1867);
Wear and Tear ; or, Hints for the Overiuorked
(1870); Thee and You (1880); Hephzibah Guinness
and other stories (1880); A Draft on the Bank of
Spain (1880); Tlie Hill of -Stones, verse (1882);
Roland Blake, noxeX (1884); A Masque and other
poems (1887); Doctor and Patient, a Series of
Essays (1887); Far in the Forest, a story (1888);
The Cup of Youth, drama (1889); The Psalm of
Death and other poems (1890); Francois Villon,
poem of dramatic narration (1890); Cliaracter-
istics, running dialogues (1892); Mr. Kris-Kringle :
A Christmas Taie, juvenile (1893); Tike Mother,
and other poems (1893); Wlien all the Woods are
Green, novel (1894); Philip Vernon, drama in verse
(1894); A Madeira Party, novel (1895); Collected
Poems (1896); Memoir of Owen Jones, biography
(1896); Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, novel (1897);
TJie Adventures of Francois, novel (1899); Atito-
hiography of a Quack and The Case of George
Dedloio (1900); Dr. Northand His Friends, novel
(1900); TVte TFagrer, poems (1900); Circumstance,
novel (1901); New SamAiHa (1902). He is also
tha author of contributions to magazines.
MITCHELL, Stephen Mix, delegate, was born in Wethersfield, Conn., Dec. 9, 1743 ; son of James and Rebecca (Mix) Mitchell ; grandson of the Rev. Stephen Mix, and great-grandson of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton. His father immigrated to America from near Paisley, Scot- land, about 1720. He was graduated from Yale college, A.B., 1763, A.M., 1766; was a tutor at Yale, 1766-69 ; studied law, was a<lmitted to the bar in 1772, and commenced to practise in
