From Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:
MORRIS W. MEAD, superintendent of the bureau of electricity, Pittsburg, was born at Underhill, Vt. (now New Burlington), Oct. 28, 1854. He is a son of the late Daniel C. and Naomie E. (Terrel) Mead, and a grandson of Josiah Mead;Daniel C. Mead, born in Underhill in 1828, was a prominent man in his day, and was an early oil prospector and promoter of manufacturing enterprises. He died in 1874, and his wife in 1875.