William Ephraim Mikell (January 29, 1868 – January 19, 1944) was an American legal scholar, lawyer and dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. [1]
Biography
Mikell was born in Sumter, South Carolina, to Thomas Price and Rebecca (Moses) Mikell. [2] [3] He married Martha Turner McBee in 1894. [2] [4] [5] He lived in Philadelphia and maintained a winter home in Charleston, South Carolina, and was buried in the city. [4]
He graduated from South Carolina Military College (the Citadel) with a BS in 1890, and from the University of Virginia Law School in 1894. [2] [6] Mikell was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1894. [3]
Mikell was Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1915 to 1929. [2] [4] He had joined the law school faculty in 1897, and taught at the law school for 46 years. [7] [6]
He wrote a number of books on the law, primarily on criminal law. [4] [8] [9] The University of Pennsylvania has an archive with a collection of his papers. [10]
Mikell is buried on Edisto Island at the Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island Cemetery in Charleston. [11]
References
- ^ "The Pennsylvania Gazette ...: Weekly Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania". 1944 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society. 1914 – via Google Books.
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b Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1901).
University of Pennsylvania: Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics; with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Founders, Benefactors, Officers and Alumni. R. Herndon Company. p.
454 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ a b c d The Living Church. Morehouse-Gorham Company. 1944 – via Google Books.
- ^ University Of Virginia. 1904 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 1944 – via Google Books.
- ^ University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register. Department of Law, University of Pennsylvania. 1944 – via Google Books.
- ^ "William Ephraim Mikell"
- ^ Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1920). Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis – via Google Books.
- ^ "William E. Mikell papers". Penn Libraries. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ^ "William Ephraim Mikell (1868-1944) - Find A Grave Memorial". Find a Grave.
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