Charles W Mitchell

Charles Wellman Mitchell was born in Baltimore on February 4, 1859. He was a son of John and Clara (Wellman) Mitchell, the former, a native of Scotland, the latter, born in New York and of Hollandese extraction, being lineally descended from one of the Dutch settlers who located in New Amsterdam in the latter part of the seventeenth century. John Mitchell was a merchant in New York until his retirement from business, and moved to Baltimore in 1857 and died in 1865.

Charles W. Mitchell graduated from Baltimore City College in 1875, and from Princeton in 1879. He studied medicine under the preceptorship (a period of training for future medical professionals, during which a more experienced medical professional provides training for a less experienced trainee) of the late Dr. J. E. Michael and graduated from Maryland University Medical Department, class of 1881. From 1881 to 1883, he was assistant resident physician at University Hospital. He spent the following eighteen months at the Universities of Prague and Vienna, studying of the practice of medicine, diseases of children and pathology.
From 1885 to 1888, Dr. Mitchell was resident physician at the University Hospital and engaged in general practice with an office and residence at 1021 Cathedral Street in Baltimore. From 1888 to 1893, Dr. Mitchell was University lecturer on Pathology; from 1893 to 1896, Clinical Professor of Medicine. In 1896 he was a Professor of Materia Medica (Pharmacology) and Clinical Medicine. In 1897, he became Professor of Diseases of Women and Children. He was dean of the UM Medical School from 1897 to 1900.
Dr. Mitchell was one of the visiting physicians to Union Protestant Infirmary, a member of American Medical Association, and the Baltimore Clinical Society and Journal Club. He was a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland from 1892 until his death in 1917. This portrait was donated to MedChi by friends of Dr. Mitchell on April 29, 1925.

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