Aaron Albert Mossell

Aaron Albert Mossell II (November 3, 1863 – February 1, 1951) was an American lawyer who was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

[citation needed] His father, Aaron Albert Mossell I (born 1824), the grandson of slaves, became a brickmaker and in Hamilton went to school to learn to read and write.

He was solicitor of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, where his brother Nathan Francis Mossell was medical director.

[3] In 1945, Aaron Mossell attended the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester representing the United Committee of Coloured and Colonial Organisations in Cardiff.

Elizabeth Mossell Anderson (1894–1975) became Dean of Women at Virginia State College and later at Wilberforce University in Ohio.

Aaron Albert Mossell II in 1888
Mossell's parents, Aaron Albert Mossell I and Eliza Bowers with their surviving five children, c. 1870–1875. From left to right are: May Mossell; Alvarilla Mossell; Charles Mossell; Aaron Albert Mossell II; and Nathan Francis Mossell (1856–1946). [ 3 ]