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

William M. Mitchell
Charlotte Mitchell

Spouse

Nellie Brown (1845-1924)

Date Married

1877-08-08

Profession

Printer
Soldier (Civil War, Massachusetts 55th)
Politician
Customs House Management

Note

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

William Henry Burleigh

Obituary in The Crisis

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112891320

Related Places

Hartford
Boston

Massachusetts - Boston and eastern Massachusetts

Connecticut - Western

Associated Causes

Abolition