Mitchell, Julian A. (Julian Augustus), 1836-1907

Julian A. Mitchell was born on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Mitchell graduated from the College of Charleston (S.C.) in 1855 and was editor (1854-1855) of the College magazine. Mitchell was appointed secretary of the U.S. legation to Russia by President Buchanan in 1860 and returned from that post just after the secession of South Carolina and before the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Mitchell was a Confederate soldier and prisoner-of-war, and after the war he returned to Charleston to practice law. He was also a plantation owner (1865 and after). His wife was Caroline Pinckney Mitchell, daughter of Rev. Charles C. Pinckney.

Lawyer of Charleston, S.C.; born on Edisto Island, S.C., he was the son of Dr. Edward Mitchell and Elizabeth Grimball Baynard Mitchell. Julian A. Mitchell graduated from the College of Charleston in 1855 and was an officer in the Confederate States Army. After the Civil War he practiced law in Charleston as a partner of William Whaley (1817-1879) and as a member of the law firm of Whaley, Mitchell & Clancy, which in 1871 became Mitchell & Whaley again. Mitchell subsequently formed a partnership with Henry A.M. Smith in the firm of Mitchell & Smith. Mitchell served as a commissioner of schools in Charleston for many years, and owned a plantation on Edisto Island (Swallow Bluff). His wife was Caroline Pinckney Mitchell, daughter of Rev. Charles C. Pinckney. His son Julian Mitchell, Jr. (1867-1960) was a Charleston attorney and businessman and South Carolina state legislator.