John H. Meade

MEADE, OWEN, ALBRIGHT, JOHNSON

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:42:26

John H. Meade was born in Saratoga county, New York, January 14th, 1828, and is a son of Charles and Abigail (Owen) Meade. His father was born in Vermont, and his mother in Massachusetts. When John was sixteen years of age, his parents moved to Oneida county, New York, where he received his education. Four years later the family moved to Wisconsin, Sheboygan county, where he lived until the year 1870. In May of that year, he came to Butler county, Iowa, and settled on section 18 of Shell Rock township. There he lived for nine years and then moved to section 8, where he now owns 160 acres of land. Mr. Meade has held the office of township trustee, and has been a member of the school board. He was married in 1852, in the month of January, to Miss Sarah Albright, who is a native of New Jersey. Four children have been born to them, of whom three are now living – George E., who lives in the village of Shell Rock; Amy E., now the wife of William Johnson, of Shell Rock township; and Mary E. Mr. Meade’s’ mother died in 1869, and his father in 1882, in Wisconsin.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 704