John C. Mead died

Given that people had “watched with him on Monday night,” the likelihood is that Mead died at 2:30 AM.

Last night, people gathered at Mead’s bedside and concluded that he was “gradually weakening and that the end was not far off.”

Unattributed.  “Obituary – John C. Mead,” Hartford Courant, September 18, 1889, page 1.