CHARLES MEAD - Biography

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This biography appears on page 672 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

CHARLES MEAD, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Rochester born in Westchester Co., N.
Y., in 1816; lived there with his parents until he was 21; worked at
farming until 1840, then came to Yorkville, and engaged with Judge
Bertram until 1841, when he came to Dover and took up eighty acres of
Government land in Secs. 5 and 8, afterward bought forty acres more in
Sec. 8, making a total of 120 acres, which he now owns; he built a brick
residence and barns on Sec. 5, where he resides; he raises a large
number of shade trees, small grain, and cattle. He was never married.