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Excerpt from S. Weir Mitchell: A Brief Sketch of His Life With Personal Recollections
Silas Weir Mitchell was born in Philadel phia, February lgth, 1829, and died in the same city at his home, I 524 Walnut Street, Jan uary 4th, 1914. He was the son of John Kears ley Mitchell and Sarah Matilda, nee Henry, daughter of Alexander Henry. His grand father, Alexander Mitchell, emigrated from Scotland and settled near Alexandria, Va., and later moved to near Charles Town, then Vir ginia, now in Jefferson County, West Virginia, Where his father was born. His father moved to Philadelphia and was an eminent physician Who for years, until his death in 1858, was pro fessor of practice of medicine in Jefferson Med ical College, Philadelphia. His father also had decided literary taste and published several vol umes of tales and poems.
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