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Mitchani. Urban district of 

 Siinry. It i< Hi 111. S. of London 

 :inil i in. fnmi (Yoydnn, with two 

 -: iih.ns, one at Mitchara Junction. 

 mi t he L.B. & S.C. Rly. A straggling 

 ii the little river Wandle, it 

 is divided into three ecclesiastical 

 districts, the churches being Christ 

 Cln.nl,, S. Mark, and SS. Peter 

 and Paul. Mitcham Common, 480 

 :UTI">. was one of the earliest homes 

 of golf in England, and the village 

 green has long been famous for its 

 iTii'Ueters. The industries include 

 laundries and the manufacture of 

 sweets, paper, etc., also market 

 ^miming and the growing of 

 lavender and other herbs for scents. 

 A tramway service links it up with 

 London. The charter fair held 

 annually on Aug. 12 has been in 

 existence from ancient times. A 

 stone haa been erected on Mitcham 

 Green, as a memorial to 500 men 

 from the district who fell in the 

 Great War. The fair was held on 

 the old green for the last time in 

 Mil 1 :?. Pop. 34,500. 



Mitchel, JOHN (1815-75). Irish 

 nationalist and journalist. Born 

 in co. Decry. Nov. 3, 1815, the son 

 of a Presbyte- 

 rian minister, 

 and educated 

 at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Dublin, 

 he was prose- 

 cuted in 1848- 

 for writing 

 seditious arti- 

 cles in The 

 United Irish- 

 man, and was 



ntenced to transportation for 14 

 are. Escaping from Van Die- 

 en's Land, he made his way to 

 erica in 1853, where he became 

 prominent advocate of slave- 

 olding and the Southern cause. 

 In 1875, while still in America, he 

 was elected member for Tipperary. 

 His right to take his seat was 

 denied on the ground of his con- 

 viction for treason felony, but the 

 electors returned him a second 

 time. Mitchel returned from 

 America with the intention of con- 

 testing the point, but died at Drom- 

 alane, March 20 of the same year 



Mitchell. Peak of the Black 

 Mts., in N. Carolina, U.S.A. Known 

 also as Mitchell's Peak and Black 

 Dome, it is 6,711 ft. in alt, the high- 

 est summit of the U.S.A. east of the 

 Rocky Mts. See Appalachians. 



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Mitchell. City of Smith Dakota, 

 the co. seat of Davisi.ii <.,. 

 It stands on the James river, 71m. 

 W. by N. of Sioux Falls, and IP 

 served by the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 and St Paul, and the Chicago :i ml 

 North-Western rlys. It is the seat 

 of Dakota University. It manufac- 

 tures rly. and machine-shop pro- 

 ducts, cigars, cream, and confec- 

 tionery, has grain elevators and 

 brickyards, and trades in ay rim I 

 tural produce and livestock. Bd 

 t led in 1879, Mitchell was chartered 

 as a city in 1883. Pop. 8,500. 



Mitchell, ABE (b. 1887). Eng- 

 lish golfer. He was an amateur 

 member of the Cantelupe Golfing 

 ^ Society, played 

 for England 

 against Scot- 

 land in the 

 Amateur In- 

 ternational 

 Matches, 1910, 

 1911,1912,and 

 I was runner up 

 in the Amateur 

 Championship, 

 1912, being 

 beaten by John 

 Ball at the 

 38th hole. He 

 became a pro- 

 fessional in 

 October, 1912, 

 won the gold 

 medal at The 

 Daily Mail 

 Tournament 

 and The News of the World Tourna- 

 ment in 1919, and the 1,000 Glen- 

 eagles Tournament in 1921. He 

 was attached to the North Foreland 

 Golf Club, Broadstairs. See Golf. 



Mitchell, CHARLES (1861-1918). 

 British boxer. Born at Birming- 

 ham, his first important success 

 was his defeat of Bob Cunningham 

 in a knuckle fight at Birmingham 

 early in 1878. In 1882 he won the 

 middleweight and heavyweight 

 championships of England, and 

 visited America, 1883-84, where 

 he gained several notable victories, 

 but was defeated by John L. Sulli- 

 van. He again fought the latter, 

 at Chantilly, in 1888, with bare 

 knuckles, the contest resulting in 

 a draw after 39 rounds. Mitchell 

 challenged Jim Corbett, the Ameri- 

 can world's champion boxer, but 

 was defeated after three rounds, at 

 Jacksonville, 1894. He died April 

 2, 1918. See Boxing. 



Mitchell, PETER CHALMERS (b. 

 1864). British zoologist. Born at 

 Dunfermline, Nov. 23, 1864, and 

 educated at Aberdeen, Oxford, 

 Berlin, and Leipzig, his first ap- 

 pointment was that of University 

 demonstrator of comparative anat- 

 omy at Oxford, and he held many 

 lectureships and examinerships 



Abe Mitchell, 

 English golfer 



P. Chalmers Mitchell, 

 British loologiit 



S. Weir Mitchell, 

 American neurologist 



MITCHELL 



before becom- 

 i n g secretary 

 of th; Zoologi- 

 cal Society of 

 Ixmdon, 1903. 

 In 1920 be 

 accompanied 

 The Times' 

 Vickers - Vimy 

 aeroplane, 

 which a t- 

 tempted the 

 Cairo-Cape Town flight. 



Mitchell, SILAS WEIR (1829- 

 1914). American neurologist and 

 author. Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 

 15, 1829, and 

 educated a t 

 the Jefferson 

 Medical Col- 

 lege there, he 

 inaugu rated 

 the Weir-Mit- 

 chell treat- 

 m e n t for 

 neurasthenia, 

 hysteria, etc. 

 substituting 

 massage, rest, and isolation for the 

 exercise treatment previously ad- 

 vocated. His treatment became 

 famous, and he was given many 

 honorary degrees by universities. 

 He was president of the Associa- 

 tion of American Physicians, 1887, 

 and President of the American 

 Neurological Association, 1908-9. 

 Among his many scientific books 

 are Injuries to Nerves and their 

 Consequences, 1864 ; Rest in the 

 Treatment of Disease, 1875 ; and 

 Clinical Lessons on Nervous Dis- 

 eases, 1895. He died Jan. 4, 

 1914. Weir Mitchell was a prolific 

 writer of children's books, among 

 which is The Wonderful Stories 

 of Fuz-buz, the Fly, and Mother 

 Grabera, the Spider, 1867; and 

 novels, as Hephzibah Guinness, 

 1880; Roland Blake, 1884 ; Hugh 

 Wynne, 1897; The Red City, 

 1908 ; John Sherwood, Ironmaster, 

 1911. -See Weir Mitchell Treatment. 

 Mitchell, SIR THOMAS (1844- 

 1919). British naval engineer and 

 draughtsman. Born at Belfast, 

 he was educated at Chatham and 

 served his apprenticeship in 

 the d o c k- 

 yard there. 

 He became 

 a draughtsman 

 in 1871, spent 

 three years at 

 the admiralty, 

 and from 1874 

 to 1907 was 

 closely identi- 

 fied with the 

 building of 

 British warships. He was foreman 

 of Portsmouth dockyard during the 

 building of the Trafalgar ; admir- 

 alty overseer at Palmer's shipyard, 



Sir Thomas Mitchell, 

 British engineer 



