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MITCHEL, ORMSBY MACKNIGHT (18091862)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 617 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MITCHEL, ORMSBY MACKNIGHT (18091862) , American astronomer, was born at Morganfield, Kentucky, on the 28th of July, 18o9. He began
life
  as a clerk, but, obtaining an appointment to a cadetship at West Point in 1825, he graduated there in 1829, and acted as assistant professor of
mathematics
  18291832. He was then called to the bar, but in 1836 became professor of
mathematics
  and natural philosophy at Cincinnati College. In 1845 he was made director of an
observatory
  established there through his initiative, and also in 1859 superintendent of the Dudley
observatory
  at
Albany
 . In 1861 he took
part
  in the war as brigadier-general of volunteers, and for his skill in seizing certain important strategic points was on the 11th of
April
  1862 made major-general. He died of yellow fever at Beaufort,
South
  Carolina, on the 3oth of October 1862. He founded the Sidereal Messenger in 1846, was one of the first to adopt (in 1848) the
electrical
  method of recording observations, and published besides other works, The Orbs of Heaven (1848, &c.), and Popular Astronomy (186o), both reissued at London in 1892.
See Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel; a Biographical Narrative, by his son, F. A. Mitchel (1887); P. C. Headley, The Patriot Boy (1865); Amer.
Journal
  of Science, xxiv. 451 (1862); Month. Notices Roy. Astr. Society, xxiii. 133, xxxvii. 121 (C. Abbe) ; Astr. Nach., No. 1401 (G. W. Hough).


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