Mead, Hiram, Dd

Mead, Hiram, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at Cornwall, Vermont, May 10, 1827. He studied at Burr Seminary, Manchester, and graduated from Middlebury College in 1850. The next two years he was engaged in teaching at Flushing, N.Y. From 1852 to 1854 he was a tutor in Middlebury College. In 1857 he graduated from Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the Church in South Hadley, Massachusetts, September 29, 1858, from which he was dismissed, November 19, 1867. From December 17, following, to September 22, 1869, he was pastor at Nashua, N.H. From 1870 until his death he was professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology in Oberlin College. He died in Oberlin, Ohio, May 18, 1881. Among his publications is the Manual of Praise, for Sunday and Social Worship (1880). See Cong. Year-book, 1882, page 34.