Larkin Goldsmith Mead, Sr.

Larkin G. Mead was 27 years old when he wrote this little sketch of Chesterfield in 1822. His father, Capt. Levi Mead, came to Chesterfield in 1801 from Lexington, Mass., where as a boy he had carried a powder-horn on the fateful 19th of April, 1775, afterward enlisting for the war. He built the tavern in the village at Chesterfield, which, — kept by his two sons, Bradley and Elias, after him—, was locally famous as “The Old Mead Tavern” for half a century. Edwin D. Mead, who gave the address at the dedication of the Chesterfield monument last summer, is a son of Bradley Mead.

From The History of Chesterfield by Randall: "The senior Larkin G. Mead was educated at Chesterfield Academy and Dartmouth College and became a prominent member of the Cheshire bar. He was a man of rare public spirit, active in the cause of education and universally respected both in Chesterfield and in Brattleboro, where he spent the last half of his life. Four of his nine children were born in Chesterfield. Larkin G. Mead, Jr. was the eminent sculptor, Charles Mead was the president of the Stanley Rule and Level Company of New York, Eleanor Mead was the wife of William D. Howells, well-known architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in New York."