{"id":3982,"date":"2012-03-06T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"elisha-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/03\/06\/elisha-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisha Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4127\" title=\"Elisha_Mitchell_Crop\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Elisha_Mitchell_Crop-971x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Elisha_Mitchell_Crop-971x1024.jpg 971w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Elisha_Mitchell_Crop-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Elisha_Mitchell_Crop-768x810.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Elisha_Mitchell_Crop.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yale educated Elisha Mitchell moved from Connecticut to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1818 to become Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.\u00a0 As a member of a state sponsored geology survey, he encouraged the development of Western North Carolina\u2019s natural resources, but he achieved lasting fame for determining that Black Mountain near Asheville was 250 feet higher than Mount Washington in New Hampshire.\u00a0 When his calculation was challenged, he returned in 1857 to verify his measurements.\u00a0 He fell down a waterfall to his death, and his body was recovered by the legendary mountain hunter and guide, Big Tom Wilson.\u00a0 He was buried on a nearby peak, the tallest mountain east of the Mississippi River.\u00a0 In 1882, it was named Mount Mitchell in his honor.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ElishaMitchel60Mx.mp3|titles=ElishaMitchel60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale educated Elisha Mitchell moved from Connecticut to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1818 to become Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[84,370,528],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-people","tag-black-mountains","tag-mount-mitchell","tag-tom-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8754,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/8754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}