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di Benvenuti. His works include : statuettes : Echo ; Sappho ; Venice, tlie Bnde of the Sea ; Joseph the Shepherd, and The Mountain Boy; and larger and more elaborate works : 77te Returned Soldier (1860); Columbus's Last Appeal to Queen Isabella (1868); America, for the Sol- diers' monument at St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; Ethan Allen, for Vermont in the National Statuary hall, Washington, D.C. ; Abraham Lincoln, for the President's monument in Springfield, 111. (1874), and live colossal groups entitled ; Cavalry, In- fantry, Artillery, Navy, and The Mississippi ; and the pediment sixty feet long representing T/u^ Return of Proserpine from the Realms of Pluto, which was placed over the main entrance to the Agricultural building at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893.

MEAD, Lucia True (Ames), author, was born in Boscowen, N.H., May 5, 1856; daughter of Nathan Plummer and Elvira (Coffin) Ames; granddaughter of Capt. Joseph and Hannah Ames of Boscowen, N.H.,anda descendant of Tristram Coffin the immigrant. At an early age she was taken by her parents to Batavia, 111., where she remained until 18T0. She then went to Boston, Mass., where she engaged in study and as a teacher of the pianoforte. She became active in the cause of various reforms, including woman suflfrage, conducted adult classes in Nineteenth Century thought, and acquired a reputation as a writer and lecturer on social, economic and literary topics. She was married, Sept. 29, 1898, to Edwin Doak Mead (q.v.), and in 1901 made an extended tour with her husband in the old world. Slie is the author of : Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers (1890) ; Memoirs of a Million- aire (1890); To Whom Much Is Given (1898); A Handful of Silver (1898), and numerous contri- butions to periodical literature.

MEAD, William Leon ("Leon Mead"), author, was born in Margaretville, N.Y., April 27, 1861; son of Cyrus and Margaret Emlyn (O'Connor) Mead ; grandson of William and Jane (Faulkner) O'Connor, and of Levi and Hettie (Keaton) Mead, and a descendant from either Joseph or William Mead, two brothers, who came from England early in the 17th century and settled in Greenwich, Conn. He attended the district schools, Port Edward Collegiate institute, 1876- 77, and Bishop's Select School for Boys at Pough- keepsie, N.Y.; and was a special student in liter- ature and philosophy at Boston university, 1881-82. He travelled and studied in Germany and France, and was travelling correspondent in the west for the Boston Post in 1882. He was elected a member of the Society of American Authors ; was associate editor of Truth ; editor of Tom NasVs Weekly and of the ForyLm magazine, and is the author of : Sky Rockets (1883) ; In

Thraldom, a Psychological Romance (1887); Cath- erine's Coquetries (1893); Valentine (1892); Tlie Bow-Legged Ghost and Other Stories (1899); Wild Cat Ledge (1901). His verse includes: Sky Rock- ets (1883) and On Nature's Reeds (1901). He contributed largely to the new8pai)er8 and lead- ing magazines ; is the author of three plays, and had in press in 1901 a volume on Word-Coinage, which cost him tliree years of research.

MEAD, William Rutherford, architect, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 20, 1846 ; son of Larkin Goldsmitli and Mary Jane (Noyes) Mead. He was educated in the schools of Brat- tleboro and was graduated at Amherst in 1867. He studied architecture with Russell Sturgis, Jr., of New York city, 1868-71, and then went to Europe and pursued the study of his profession in Florence, Italy, until 1873, when he returned to the United States. He became a member of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, architects in New York citj', in 1875. This firm were the architects of Columbia university, New York university, the University of Virginia, the Bos- ton public library, the Metropolitan club, Uni- versity club and Century association buildings, the private residences of Henry Villard, H. M. Twombly, Frederic W. Vanderbilt and L. C. Tif- fany, the office buildings of the New York Life Insurance company at New York, Kansas City and Omaha ; the New York Herald building, Madison Square Garden, Rhode Island capitol building, the Agriculture and New York state buildings at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 and many other important build- ings. Mr. Mead was married, Nov. 13, 1883, to Olga, daughter of Prof. Moritz Kileny, of Buda- pest, Hungary.

MEADE, George Gordon, soldier, was born in Cadiz, Spain, Dec. 31, 1815 ; son of Richard Wor- sam and Margaret Coates (Butler) Meade, and grandson of George Meade and of Anthony. But- ler, of Perth Amboy, N.J. He attended a board- ing school in Philadelphia, Pa.; a school in Wash- ington kept by Salmon P. Chase, and Mt. Hope institute near Baltimore, Md. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1835 as brevet 2d lieutenant, was assigned to the 3d artil- lery, and was promoted 2d lieutenant, Dec. 81. 1835. He served in the Seminole war, 1835- 36, and on ordnance duty in 1836. He resigned from the army, Oct. 26, 1836, and was assistant engineer in the construction of the Alabama, Florida and Georgia railroad, 1836-37 ; surveyed the boundary line between the United States and Texas for the U.S. government in 1837 ; was prin- cipal assistant engineer to Capt. Andrew Talcott in a survey of the mouths of the Mississippi for the improvement of navigation, 1837-39. and was civil assistant on the survey of the northeastern.