William Ephraim Mikell
{{short description|American lawyer}}
William Ephraim Mikell (January 29, 1868 {{ndash}} January 19, 1944) was an American legal scholar, lawyer and dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgrnAAAAMAAJ&q=William+Ephraim+Mikell+%22sumter%22|title=The Pennsylvania Gazette ...: Weekly Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania|date= 1944|via=Google Books}}
Biography
Mikell was born in Sumter, South Carolina, to Thomas Price and Rebecca (Moses) Mikell.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSsPAQAAMAAJ&q=William+Ephraim+Mikell+1868|title=The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania|date= 1914|publisher=General Alumni Society|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofpenn01cham|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofpenn01cham/page/454 454]|quote=William Ephraim Mikell sumter.|title=University of Pennsylvania: Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics; with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Founders, Benefactors, Officers and Alumni|first=Joshua Lawrence|last=Chamberlain|date=1901|publisher=R. Herndon Company|via=Internet Archive}} He married Martha Turner McBee in 1894.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3zkAAAAMAAJ&q=William+Ephraim+Mikell+%22sumter%22&pg=PP117|title=The Living Church|date= 1944|publisher=Morehouse-Gorham Company|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQM0Hid6ey0C&q=William+Ephraim+Mikell+%22sumter%22&pg=PA97|title=University Of Virginia|date=1904|via=Google Books}} He lived in Philadelphia and maintained a winter home in Charleston, South Carolina, and was buried in the city.
He graduated from South Carolina Military College (the Citadel) with a BS in 1890, and from the University of Virginia Law School in 1894.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FKEVAAAAIAAJ&q=William+Ephraim+Mikell+1868|title=Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching|date= 1944|via=Google Books}} Mikell was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1894.
Mikell was Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1915 to 1929. He had joined the law school faculty in 1897, and taught at the law school for 46 years.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WnQuAAAAIAAJ&q=William+Ephraim+Mikell+1868|title=University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register|date= 1944|publisher=Department of Law, University of Pennsylvania|via=Google Books}}
He wrote a number of books on the law, primarily on criminal law.[https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=9343&context=penn_law_review "William Ephraim Mikell"]{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZJDV5f3DUoC&q=William+Ephraim+Mikell+%22sumter%22&pg=RA3-PA1970|title=Who's who in America|first1=John William|last1=Leonard|first2=Albert Nelson|last2=Marquis|date= 1920|publisher=A.N. Marquis|via=Google Books}} The University of Pennsylvania has an archive with a collection of his papers.{{cite web|url=http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_biddle_USPULPULMSS019|title=William E. Mikell papers|website=Penn Libraries|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=November 8, 2019}}
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Category:19th-century American lawyers
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:People from Sumter, South Carolina
Category:Deans of University of Pennsylvania Law School
Category:University of Virginia School of Law alumni