Larkin Goldsmith Mead (1795 - 1869)

Born 2 Oct 1795 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Jane (Noyes) Mead — married 8 Jun 1829 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, United States

Descendants

Died 6 Jul 1869 at age 73 in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Sculptor’s Father Wrote Sketch of Town Century Ago

LEVI MEAD REBEL AT LEXINGTON ‘75

The dedication of the soldier’s monument at Chesterfield, N. H. in the summer of 1924 awakened a new interest in the town’s history and first brought to the knowledge of many that a historical sketch of the town had been published more than a century ago. This was written by Larkin G. Mead, afterward prominent in the life of Brattleboro, and published in Farmer and Moore’s Historical Collections, at Concord, N. H. in 1822. This work has long since been out of print; and a reprint of the brief Chesterfield sketch should at this time be of interest. The author must have known personally many of the first generation of the town’s inhabitant and his sketch is a valuable chapter in the annals of an old valley town.

Larkin G. Mead was 27 years old when he wrote this little sketch of Chesterfield in 1822. His father, Capt. Levi Mead, came to Chesterfield in 1801 from Lexington, Mass., where as a boy he had carried a powder-horn on the fateful 19th of April, 1775, afterward enlisting for the war. He built the tavern in the village at Chesterfield, which, — kept by his two sons, Bradley and Elias, after him—, was locally famous as “The Old Mead Tavern” for half a century. Edwin D. Mead, who gave the address at the dedication of the Chesterfield monument last summer, is a son of Bradley Mead.

Larkin G. Mead was educated at Chesterfield Academy and Dartmouth College and became a prominent member of the Cheshire bar. He was a man of rare public spirit, active in the cause of education and universally respected both in Chesterfield and in Brattleboro, where he spent the last half of his life. Four of his nine children were born in Chesterfield. Larkin G. Mead, Jr. was the eminent sculptor, Charles Mead was the president of the Stanley Rule and Level Company of New York, Eleanor Mead was the wife of William D. Howells, well-known architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in New York.

http://www.vhist.com/chs/history/1822-mead-article/

1860 Census- Windham Co., VT

Larkin G. Meed, 64, lawyer, MA

Mary J., 54, VT

Charles L., 27, rule manufacturer, NH

Larkin G. Jr., 25, artist, NH

Elleanor, 23, VT

Jana C., 18, VT

Mary J., 16, VT

Wm., 14, VT

Frederick, 12, VT

Sources

• "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFK7-ZVW : 18 October 2017), Larkin G Mead and Mary Jane Noyes, 08 Jun 1829, Marriage; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,642.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2N-D7D : 12 April 2016), Larkin G Mead, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States; citing family 388, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFDC-27T : 12 December 2017), Larkin J Meel, 1860.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-MFM6 : 13 December 2015), Larkin Goldsmith Mead, 1869; Burial, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States of America, Prospect Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 63981402, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.