Dr. Darius Mead: Great Panic of 1837

Dr. Darius Mead was born 9 Jul 1787 in Greenwich, CT to Joshua Mead & Rachel Knapp. He married Lydia Belcher daughter of Dr. Elishia Belcher (He was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War) & Lydia Reynolds.

He graduated from Yale in 1807, he was a member of the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, CT. They had the following children.

Zalmon Sanford Mead 1810-1842

Robert Williams Mead 1814-1875

Frederick Mead 1817-1898

Mary A. Mead 1819-1833

Julie Ann Mead 1823-1900

Henry White Mead 1825-1881

He married again after his wife's death to Hannah Peck.

"History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield, Connecticut, Extract from the Funeral Service of Dr. Darius Mead." page 116, Delivered at the Second Congregational Church, Greenwich, Connecticut February 1, 1864, by Rev. S.B.S. Bissell, Norwalk, Connecticut."

"Darius Mead, son of Joshua Mead and Rachel Knapp, of Round Hill, Greenwich, Connecticut was born in Greenwich, July 9, 1787. He was fitted for college under the venerated Isaac Lewis, D.D. whom he ever greatly revered and loved, and to whom he was much indebted for the formation of his character. He entered Yale College in the year 1803, and graduated 1807 at the age of 20. He studied Medicine in Philadelphia under Doctor Rush and received his diploma in 1809, in which year he was married to Lydia K., daughter of Elisha Belcher, M.D. of Round Hill. She died 16 years before him on January 15, 1848. He practiced medicine for a few months in New York, but removed to Greenwich in 1810, settling first in the Old Society, but soon removing hither. He united with this church in 1819, soon after the dismission of Rev. Dr. Lewis, under the pastorate of his son of the same name. In the years 1845-46 he represented the 12th District in the Senate of Connecticut, being nominated without ever seeking or knowledge of the intention. He was a diligent reader of the Bible, and his piety was a deeply settled principle, manifesting itself in a humble, Godly, consistent life, rather than in many words.


	U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935 for Darius Mead	Connecticut	Yale College 1828

I found these four pages on Ancestry the source being:

History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont and Western Pennsylvania from Ad 1180 to 1900

Author Mead, Spencer P. (Spencer Percival), b. 1863

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