MITCHELL, EDWARD CUSHING: Baptist; b. at East Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 20, 1829; d. at New Orleans Mar. 2, 1900. He was graduated from Waterville College (now Colby University), Me., 1849, and Newton, Mass., Theological Institution, 1853; was resident graduate for a year; pastor at Calais, Me., 1854-56; Brockport, N. Y., 1857-58; Rockford, Ill., 1858-63; professor of Biblical interpretation, Alton, Ill., 1863-70; of Hebrew and Old Testament literature, Baptist Union Seminary, Chicago, 1870-77; of Hebrew, Regent's Park College, London, Eng., 1877; president Baptist Theological School, Paris, France, 1878-82; president Roger William University, Nashville, Tenn., 1884-1885. He wrote: A Critical Handbook: a Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the New Testament (Andover, 1880); Les sources du Nouveau Testament, recherches sur l'authentiew, le canon, et Is texte du Nouveau Testament, Paris, 1882; Hebrew Introduction, An Elementary Hebrew Grammar and Reading Book, Andover, 1883. He also edited and enlarged Benjamin Davies' Hebrew Lexicon (An dover, 1880); revised and reedited Davies' Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1881); and edited The Present Age (Chicago, 188384). He also delivered the Lowell Institute lectures for 1884 upon Biblical Science and Modern Diecrovery.

MITCHELL, HINCKLEY GILBERT: Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Lee, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1846. He was educated at Wesley= University, Middle.

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town, Conn. (A.B., 1873), the school of theology attached to Boston University (B.D., 1876), and the University of Leipsic (Ph.D., 1879). He was then pastor of the church of his denomination at Fayette, N. Y., for a year (1879-80), after which he was tutor in Latin and Hebrew at Wesleyan University for three years (1880-83). Since 1883 he has been connected with Boston University, first as instructor in Hebrew and Old-Testament exegesis (1883-84) and later as professor of the same subjects (since 1884). In 1901-02 he was director of the American School for Oriental Study and Research in Palestine. In addition to translating C. H. Piepenbring’s “Theology of the Old Testament” (New York, 1893), he has written Final Constructions of Biblical Hebrew (Leipsic,1879); Hebrew Lessons (Boston, 1885); Amos, an Essay in Exegesis (1893); Isaiah, a Study of Chapters i.-xii. (New York, 1897); The World before Abraham (Boston, 1901); Tales told in Palestine (in collaboration with J. E. Hanauer, Cincinnati, 1904); and the volume for Genesis in The Bible for Home and School (New York, 1909).