Artist: Unknown; oil on canvas
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 Dutch extraction, being
lineally descended from one of the 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 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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