Mitchell, James, 1818-1903 (Personal Name)

Letter on the relation of the white and African races in the United States, 1862: p. 28 (James Mitchell)

RLIN, 5/20/98 (hdgs.: Mitchell, James, fl. 1855-1870; Mitchell, James, commissioner of emigration; Mitchell, James)

OCLC, Mar. 10, 2010 (hdgs.: Mitchell, James; Mitchell, James, $d fl. 1855-1865; Mitchell, James, $d fl. 1855-1870; Mitchell, James, $d 1818-1903; Mitchell, James, $c commissioner of emigration; usage: James Mitchell; James Mitchell, agent of the American Colonization Society; James Mitchell, agent of the Indiana Colonization Society; Rev. J. Mitchell)

LC Online Catalog, Mar. 10, 2010 (Mitchell, James; Mitchell, James, $d 1818-1903; Mitchell, James, $c commissioner of emigration; usage: James Mitchell)

Wikipedia, via WWW, Mar. 10, 2010 (James Mitchell, American politician; b. Sept. 14, 1818, in Derry to Protestant parents; emigrated to America in the 1830s; became a Methodist preacher in Indiana, an advocate of abolitionism and colonization, and in 1848 Secretary of the American Colonization Society of Indiana, first meeting Abraham Lincoln in this capacity; Lincoln appointed Mitchell as Commissioner of Emigration on Aug. 4, 1862, and, as commissioner, he oversaw the establishment of colonies abroad for freed slaves; after the Civil War returned to the ministry in the Methodist church, becoming a prominent religious leader in the Georgia Episcopal Methodist Conference; took his ministry to Mount Zion, Ga., in 1877, founding the Mount Zion Seminary, the predecessor institution of the current Mount Zion High School; served as director of the Seminary until his death on Mar. 2, 1903)