William Ephraim Mikell
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 B.S. 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]
Mikell is buried on Edisto Island at the Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island Cemetery in Charleston.[10]
References
- ↑ "The Pennsylvania Gazette ...: Weekly Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania". 1944 – via Google Books.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society. 1914 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 The Living Church. Morehouse-Gorham Company. 1944 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 1904 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 1944 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register. Department of Law, University of Pennsylvania. 1944 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ "William Ephraim Mikell"
- ↑ Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1920). Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ "William Ephraim Mikell (1868-1944) - Find A Grave Memorial".
| Preceded by William Draper Lewis |
Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School 1914–1929 |
Succeeded by Herbert Funk Goodrich |
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