Individual Details

Charles Mead was manager and president of the Stanley Rule and Level Company, New York. Active in Negro education in the South; trustee of Hampton Institute, etc. He came to Brattleboro with his parents at age of three, in 1836; when a young man he went to Springfield, Mass., and for a short time was clerk in the book store of G. & C. Merriam. In 1857 bought interest in the rule business of E. A. Stearns & Co., later purchased by the Stanley Rule and Level Co., Received a commission on staff of the adjutant general of Vermont. Business in 1876 was at 35 Chambers St., NY, NY.

A photograph of Charles L. Mead, made in the 1870's, resembled so much Rutherford Hayes, Jr. (his great-uncle) at the time of his death in 1822, that it could have passed for the latter's portrait. No photograph of the President's father, Rutherford Hayes Jr. was know to exist.
Watt Marchman.

Birth	21 Jan 1833	Chesterfield, Cheshire Co., NH
Residence	1836	Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT
Marriage	12 May 1864	Isabella Sophia Martin
Residence	1870	New Britain, Hartford Co., CT
Death	19 Aug 1899	Norfolk, Litchfield Co., CT
Religion		Congregational Church

Spouse	Isabella Sophia Martin (1842 - 1925)
Child	Albert Mead (1865 - 1871)
Child	Catherine Lois "Kate" Mead (1869 - 1906)
Child	Larkin Goldsmith Mead (1874 - 1933)
Child	Mabel Converse Mead (1879 - )

Father	Larkin Goldsmith Mead (1795 - 1869)
Mother	Mary Jane Noyes (1805 - 1876)
Sibling	John Noyes Mead (1831 - 1850)
Sibling	Larkin Goldsmith Mead Jr. (1835 - 1910)
Sibling	Elinor Gertrude Mead (1837 - 1910)
Sibling	Albert Mead (1840 - 1856)
Sibling	Joanna Elizabeth Mead (1841 - 1914)
Sibling	Mary Noyes Mead (1844 - 1910)
Sibling	William Rutherford Mead (1846 - 1928)
Sibling	Frederick Goodhue Mead (1848 - 1890)