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 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]

References

  1. ^ "The Pennsylvania Gazette ...: Weekly Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania". 1944 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c d The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society. 1914 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a 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. William Ephraim Mikell sumter.
  4. ^ a b c d The Living Church. Morehouse-Gorham Company. 1944 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ University Of Virginia. 1904 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ a b Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 1944 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register. Department of Law, University of Pennsylvania. 1944 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "William Ephraim Mikell"
  9. ^ Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1920). Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis – via Google Books.
  10. ^ "William E. Mikell papers". Penn Libraries. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
Preceded by Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
1914–1929 		Succeeded by