Major C. Mead
{{short description|American politician}}
Major C. Mead (1858–1925) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
Biography
Mead was born on June 26, 1858, in Lyndon, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, as the son of Abel Mead and Permelia Peck .{{cite book |editor=Thomas J. Cunningham |title=The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin 1891 |place=Milwaukee |publisher=Milwaukee Litho. & Engr. Co. |year=1891 |page=581 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dE0NAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA581 |access-date=2019-01-27 }} His father died when he was 1 year old, and in 1863 his mother remarried his father's younger brother Clark R. Mead.{{cite book |title=Portrait and Biographical Record of Sheboygan County, Wis. |place=Chicago |publisher=Excelsior |year=1894 |page=557 |url=http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/wch/id/48102/rec/2 |access-date=2013-10-10}} On June 29, 1881, Mead married Rose Robinson (1859–1951). They moved to Plymouth, Wisconsin, and had three children.{{cite book |title=Portrait and Biographical Record of Sheboygan County, Wis. |place=Chicago |publisher=Excelsior |year=1894 |page=588 |url=http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/wch/id/48102/rec/2 |access-date=2019-01-27 }} Mead died on February 19, 1925, and is interred at the Union Cemetery in Plymouth.
Career
Mead was elected to the Senate in 1888 and remained a member until 1892. He was a Democrat.