Nelson Mead and Martha A. McDowell

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Husband Nelson Mead ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 Feb 1835 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 29 Dec 1912 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Mead (1786-1870) 4 5 6
         Mother: Sally Hoffman (1793-1856) 2

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       Marriage: 1 Mar 1859 2

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   Other Spouse: Caroline Manning Ostrander (1850-      ) 7 - 3 Oct 1888 8

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Wife Martha A. McDowell ^{2 9}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1886 - Corydon, Warren Co, PA 2
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         Father: Dr.  McDowell (      -      )
         Mother: 

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         Father: Joshua Turner Currie (1815-1889) 10 11
         Mother: Jane Irwin (1817-Aft 1847) 11 12 13

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Children

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1 M Charles C. Mead ²

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           Born: 27 Mar 1860 2
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           Died: Bef 1913 - Buffalo, Erie Co, NY
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2 F Alice Mead ²

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           Born: 3 Jul 1865 2
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           Died: Aft 1913
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3 M George N. Mead ²

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           Born: 23 Mar 1867 2
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         Spouse: Ada L. Case (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 5 Oct 1901 2

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4 M Dr. Harry Mead ²

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           Born: 11 Jul 1869 2
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           Died: 1917 - Buffalo, Erie Co, NY 14
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5 F Mattie Mead ²

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           Born: Jun 1872 2
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           Died: Jan 1876 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Nelson Mead

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He attended the public school and grew to manhood on the home farm. In early life he engaged in the lumber business, bringing the logs to his saw mill, manufacturing them into lumber, and rafting the finished product down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh and Ohio river cities. Later he engaged in mercantile business, having a general store at Youngsville, but after several years there removing to Corydon, where he continued twenty-six years. His active business life covered a period of half a century of successful enterprising effort. In 1907 he retired, and settled in Warren, Pennsylvania, where he died. He was a man of high character, and one held in warmest esteem by his friends. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Corydon Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Warren Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. [GPHAV, 869]

He lived in the vicinity of his native town until the year 1882, engaging in various branches of the mercantile and oil producing business, but with indifferent success. At that time having experienced all the turns of the oil business, he moved to Corydon and opened a general store which was managed mainly by his younger sons. With his oldest child, under the firm style of N. Mead & Son, he purchased the timber on a tract of two thousand acres in Elk and Corydon townships and Cattaraugus County, NY. The firm operated two steam power mills with a producing capacity of nearly 30,000 feet of lumber daily. [HWC 1887, lxvii]
He was one of the county commissioners in the years 1871, 1872 and 1873; Warren County, PA.

1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg lxvii.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 869.

3 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pers lxvii.

4 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 175.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 868.

6 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 314.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 870.

8 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 385.

9 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 628, lxvii.

10 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 627.

11 S. D. Irwin, The Irwin Family - Sketch of Richard Irwin of Chester County, PA, and His Descendents (Franklin, PA: The Evening News Print, 1893.), Pg 12.

12 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 588.

13 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 347.

14 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 386.