Fountain-Vermillion County IN Archives Biographies.....Mead, Levi 1830 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Levi Mead, farmer, Covington, has been a resident of Fountain county since
1853. He was born in 1830, just one year after his father, Simeon Mead, settled
in Vermilion county, Indiana. His life has been spent principally in the Wabash
valley, and his present nice home and good property has been acquired by his own
thrift and good management. He began first by working by the month, then rented
a farm, and finally was able to buy. His farm now consists of 135 acres, on
which he has cleared eighty-five acres and made most of the improvements; he has
also built fine buildings. In addition to farming he has a steam saw-mill of a
manufacturing capacity of 6,000 feet of lumber per day. Through this enterprise
Mr. Mead has helped to build up and improve that part of Troy township in which
he lives. In his political views he is a staunch republican. In 1859 Mr. Mead
was married to Miss Crain, daughter of Joseph C. and Melinda Crain, who are
numbered among Fountain county's early settlers. They have a family of three
children, two boys and one girl.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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