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bravery at Oswego, was brevetted colonel U.S.A. in August. 1814, and succeeded General Gaines to the command of the Army of the Centre. The legislature of Maryland complimented his bravery and the governor presented him with a sword. He was married May 28, 1810, to Mary, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Conway) Hooper of Dorchester county, Md. He succeeded Gen- eral Scott in command of the Fourth Military department, and on June 1, 1821, resigned his commission and returned to his home in Cecil county, Md. He was a representative in the 18th, 19th, 21st and 22d congresses, 1823-27, 1829-32, and during Lafayette's visit to America, 1824, he was chairman of the congressional committee apiJointed to introiluce the honored guest to the representatives of the i>eople. He died in Wash- ington, D.C., June 28. 1832.

MITCHELL, George Washington, educator, was born in Lexington, Mo., July 26, 1842. He attended the public and private schools of Lex- ington, and was ordained to the Christian Union ministry in 1ST8. He was married in 1864 to Josephine Harris of Ray county. Mo. He was pastor of the Christian Union church at Holt, Mo., 1878-98, and was elected president of Chris- tian Union college. Grand Union, Mo. The hon- orary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the Christian Union college in 1894. He edited Light and Truth, a religious and educational journal.

MITCHELL, Henry, hydrologist, was born in Nantucket, Mass., Sept. 16, 1830 ; son of William and Lydia (Coleman) Mitchell. He attended private schools and early devoted himself to the study of physics. He received an appoint- ment on tlie U.S. coast survey in 1849, and was first employed in connection with the primary triangulation of New England ; subsequently he was assigned to duty on the tides and currents of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. He was assistant to the commissioners on harbor encroachments at New York, 1859 ; consulting engineer and mem- ber of the U.S. advisory council for Boston harbor, 1860-67 ; for Portland harbor, 1878 ; Provi- dence, R.I., 1877 ; for Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., 1876-80, and the harbor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1880-85. In 1874 he represented the coast and geodetic survey in the board of engineers for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi river, and after the jetties at the South Pass were decided upon he served gratuitously on the Eads advisory board. He was subsequently appointed by the President a member of the Mississippi River commission, representing the coast and geodetic survey, and served for nine years. In 1868 he was sent abroad by the coast and geodetic survey, and before his return he made an inspec- tion of the Suez canal, under authority from and

at the expen.se of M. de Lesseps. He was ap- pointed one of the professors of the Agassiz field school at its foundation, but could not serve practically. In 1869 he was appointed professor of physical hydrography at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, and served for a brief period. The honorary degree of A.M. was con- ferred on him by Harvard in 1867. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of . Arts and Sciences, 1863 ; a member of theAmeri- can Society of Civil Engineers, 1870, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1885. He is the author of -.Reclamation of Tide- Lands and Its Relation to Navigation (1869) ; Inspection of the Terminal Points of the Proposed Canal throiigh Nicaragua and the Isthmus of Darien (1874); Physical Survey of New York f/arbor (1876); Re- lative Elevations of Land and Sea (1877); Physi- cal Hydrography of the Oulf of Maine (1879); Circulation of the Sea through New York Harbor (1886); The Under-Run of the Hudson (1888). He died in New York city, Dec. 1, 1902.

MITCHELL, Hinckley Gilbert, educator, was born in Lee^ Oneida county, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1846 ; son of James and Sarah Gilbert (Thomas) Mitchell ; grandson of Milo and Ann (Hinckley) Mitcliell, and of John and Sarah (Gilbert) Thomas ; great-grandson of Barnabas Mitchell of Con- necticut, who served as a soldier in the Revolu- tion and afterward became one of the first set- tlers of Remson, N.Y., and a descendant of Ensign John, brother of Thomas Hinckley, governor of Plymouth Colony. His maternal grandfather was a native of Nevin, Wales. He attended Falley seminary at Fulton, N.Y., and was graduated from the Wesleyan university in 1873 and frora the school of theology of Boston university in 1876. He studied Old Testament exegesis at Leipzig university 1876-79, receiving the de- gree of Ph.D. He joined the Central New York conference of the M.E. church ; was stationed at Fayette, N.Y., 1879-80, and was tutor in Latin and instructor in Hebrew at the Wesleyan uni- versity, 1880-83. He was married, June 29, 1880, to Alice, daughter of Joshua R. Stanford of Alton, 111. He became instructor in Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at Boston university in 1883, and professor of the same in 1884, when he also became secretary of the Society of Biblical Litera- ture and Exegesis and editor of its Journal. He was the second (annual) director of the American School of Oriental Study and Research at Jerusa- lem, 1901-02. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Mt. Union college in 1888 and by Wesleyan university in 1901. He is the author of Final Constructions of Biblical Hebrew, doctor's dissertation (1879); Hebrew Lessons (1897); Amos: an Essay in Exegesis (1900); Isaiah, a study of Chapters I-XII {2d ed., 1900);