Charles Lewis Mitchell

Charles Lewis Mitchell
“The Colored Legislators of Massachusetts,” Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), November 17, 1866, p. 1
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 at his desk, always the editor!William Lloyd Garrison
Daguerreotype of William BurleighWilliam Henry Burleigh
Obituary in The Crisis
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112891320
Related Places
Hartford
Boston
Fanueil Hall, BostonMassachusetts - Boston and eastern Massachusetts
Frederic Edwin Church - Winter Scene in HartfordConnecticut - Western
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Liberty BellAbolition
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Charles Lewis MitchellCharles Lewis Mitchell
“The Colored Legislators of Massachusetts,” Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), November 17, 1866, p. 1“The Colored Legislators of Massachusetts,” Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), November 17, 1866, p. 1