History of East Bridgewater, (Plymouth County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Edward Cushing Mitchell, educator, was born in East Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 20, 1829; son of Sylvanus E. and Lucia (Whitman) Mitchell, and grandson of Judge Nahum Mitchell and of Judge Ezekiel Whitman. He attended Yarmouth academy, Maine, and was graduated from Waterville college in 1849; from the Newton Theological institution in 1853, and was resident graduate, 1853-54. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry, July 13, 1854; was pastor at Calais, Maine, 1854-56; at Brockport, N.Y., 1857-58, and at Rockford, Ill., 1858-63. He was professor of biblical interpretation, theological department, Shurtleff college, Alton, Ill., 1863-70, and of Hebrew and Old Testament literature after the schools became the Baptist Union Theological seminary, Chicago, Ill., 1870-76. He was professor of Hebrew at Regent's Park college, London, England, 1876-77; president of the Baptist Theological school at Paris, France, 1878-82, and president pro tempers of Roger Williams university, at Nashville, Tenn., 1884-85. In the winter of 1883-84 he reorganized the colored schools of the south under the American Home Missionary society, and in 1887 he was president of Leland university, New Orleans, La., 1887-1900. He was married first in 1854 to Maria, daughter of Sendel and Eliza Morton of Middlebore, Mass,; she died in February, 1888, and he was married secondly in 1890, to Marcia Savage of Bath, N.Y; He received from Colby the degree of A.M. in 1863, and that of D.D. in 1870. He delivered a course of lectures on "Biblical Science and Modern Discovery," before the Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1883, and also lectured before the Hebrew school, Morgan Park, Ill, in Worcester, Mass., and in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1884-85. He edited: The Present Age, Chicago, Ill., 1883-84; Benjamin Davies's Hebrew Lexicon (1880), and Mitchell's edition of Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar (1883). He is the author of Guide to the Authenticity, Canon and Text of the New Testament (1881); Les Sources du Nouveau Testansett (Paris, 1882), and an Elementary Hebrew Grammar and Reading Book (1884). He died in New Orleans, La., March 2, 1900.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Nahum Mitchell, jurist, was born in East Bridgewater, Mass., Feb. 12, 1769; son of Cushing and Jennet (Orr) Mitchell; grandson of Col. Edward and Elizabeth (Cushing) Mitchell; great-grandson of Edward and Alice (Bradford) Mitchell, and great-great-grandson of Experience Mitchell, who immigrated to America in the ship Ann in 1623, settled at Plymouth, Mass., removed to Duxbury in 1631, and later to Bridgewater; and also a descendant of Maj. John Bradford of Kingston. Nahum Mitchell was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1789, A.M., 1792. He studied law in Plymouth, Mass., was admitted to the bar in November, 1792, and practised in Bridgewater. He was a representative in the state legislature for several years; was a representative in the 8th congress, 1803-05; judge of the court of common pleas, 1811-21, and chief-justice, 1819-21. He served in the governor's council, 1814-20; was treasurer of the state, 1822-27, and was appointed chairman of the commission for exploring and laying out the Boston and Albany Railroad route in 1827. He was a commissioner to settle the boundary line between Massachusetts and Rhode Island and subsequently between Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was librarian and treasurer of the Massachusetts Historical society and president of the Bible Society in Plymouth county. He is the author of a Grammar of Music: The Brattle Street Collection of Church Music (1810); The Bridgewater Collection of Sacred Music (1812); History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater (1840), and a series of articles on the History of Music, published in the Boston Euterpiead. He died in East Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 1, 1853.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor