Charles Lewis Mitchell
- Name
- Charles Lewis Mitchell
- First Name
- Charles
- Additional Names
- Lewis
- Last Name
- Mitchell
- Born
- 10 November 1829
- Died
- 13 April 1912
- Parents
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William M. Mitchell
Charlotte Mitchell - Spouse
- Nellie Brown (1845-1924)
- Date Married
- 1877-08-08
- Profession
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Printer
Soldier (Civil War, Massachusetts 55th)
Politician
Customs House Management - Note
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He was elected in 1866 to the Massachusetts Legislature, one of the first two Blacks to be elected to that body. In 1869 he was offered work at the Customs House, where he worked for decades.
Worked at the offices of The Charter Oak with William H. Burleigh
Worked at the offices of The Liberator with William Lloyd Garrison
Served as a pallbearer at Garrison's funeral
Sketch comes from W. E. B. DuBois's, The Crisis, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 118.
Source of connection to Burleigh - “The Colored Legislators of Massachusetts,” Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), November 17, 1866, p. 1 -
William Lloyd Garrison
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William Henry Burleigh
- Obituary in The Crisis
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112891320
- Related Places
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Hartford
Boston -
Massachusetts - Boston and eastern Massachusetts
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Connecticut - Western
- Associated Causes
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Abolition
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