San Diego County Biographies
 
A. NEWTON MEAD

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owns and occupies a model ranch about three miles west of the city of San 
Jacinto, which with its nicely painted building and white fences presents to the 
approaching visitor a beautiful picture. He is engaged in raising horses, cattle 
and poultry, and large quantities of grain. Mr. Mead was born in Greenwich, 
Connecticut, March 13, 1858. His ancestors settled in Greenwich about forty 
years after the Puritans landed at Plymouth Rock. His father, Solomon Mead, was
born there, and is still living, at the age of eighty-eight, and spends his 
winters in his son's California home where he greatly enjoys the balmy air. Mr. 
Mead's mother, Elizabeth (Dayton) Mead, was of Scotch descent. Mr. Mead had two 
brothers and four sisters, all born in Greenwich, and all graduates of Eastern 
colleges.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  157