John Kearsley Mitchell

Background

Mitchell, John Kearsley was born on July 13, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of South(ilas) Weir and Mary Middleton (Elwyn) Mitchell.

Education

Brother of Langdon Elwyn M. Harvard, 1877-1880 (Bachelor of Arts, 1904). Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1883.

Career

Resident physical Children’s Hospital, 1883, Episcopal Hospital, 1883-1885. Demonstrator, 1886-1892, lecturer, 1893-1898, University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Now physician to Philadelphia Infirmary for Nervous Diseases.

Consultant neurologist Pennsylvania Institution for Feeble-Minded.

Achievements

• John Kearsley Mitchell has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Anne Keppele Williams, 1889.