Background
Mead, John Abner was born on April 20, 1841 in Fairhaven, Vermont, United States. Son of Roswell Rowley and Lydia Ann (Gorham) Mead.
Mead, John Abner was born on April 20, 1841 in Fairhaven, Vermont, United States. Son of Roswell Rowley and Lydia Ann (Gorham) Mead.
Private 12th Vermont Volumes, 1862-1863. Bachelor of Arts, Middlebury (Vermont) College, 1864. Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgical (Columbia), 1868.
(Doctor of Laws, Norwich University, Middlebury College, University of Vermont).
Practiced medicine, Rutland, Vermont, until 1888. Surgeon-general of Vermont, 1878-1879. Was treasurer Rutland Railroad Company, 1880-1886.
President Vermont State Trust Company, 1881-1886.
Treasurer Addison Railroad, 1880-1886, et cetera President Howe Scale Company, since 1888, Baxter National Bank, since 1904.
Secured 1st charter for City of Rutland, Vermont, and elected 1st mayor, 1893. Vermont commissioner Chicago Exposition, 1893, Mexican National Exposition, 1895.
Member Vermont Senate, 1892, House of Representatives, 1906.
Married Mary Madelia Sherman, November 30, 1872.