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CLASS OF I Mm.
.IOIIN AM10S MKAI), llitt son c*f Arteinas r.in .V??sji-.nl ( Kichard-son) .Mead, was born in Portland, i\Ie., .Inly Hi, IK-li. IK- resided with his parents in Woburn, Mass., when he entered college, and was prepared at the Woburn High School. At the close of his frestnnan year he took a dismission' from college and enlisted, July 1 >s(;2, in the Thirty-ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. During his term of service lie was in the battles of Hatcher?s linn, Fort Steadman, Five Folks, Farmville, Petersburg and Appomattox, under the command successively of Generals I leint/.leman, Meade and Hancock. While on picket duty, ho w:>s t:ik<jj* prisoner at Raccoon Ford, Va., ()ct. 11, 1803, and was confined in Libby l?rison until paroled March Ui>, 1864. With his regiment, he was mustered out of service at Alexandria, Va., June 2, 1805. After the war lie pursued medical studies with I). P. Gage, M. 1)., of Lowell, Mass., and received the degree of M. D. from Harvard University in 1SG?J. lie then removed to Pearlington, Hancock county, Miss., and practiced his profession there the rest of his life. In 18.HG Amherst conferred upon him the degree of A. B., extra ordinem. After an illnessof about two months during which time he was taken to New Orleans, La., for a surgical operation, he died of pneumonia, at the hospital ? Hotel Dieu ? in that city, Jan. 30, 1891.
Dr. Mead was married, Oct. 23, 1880, to Amelia R., daughter of Stephen Mead, a native of Bedford, Mass., but a resident of l?earl-iugton, Miss. Mrs. Mead with two children survives him.