Dr. Alfred M. Mead, son of John G. Mead, was born in Macedon Center, New York, November 21, 1856. He attended the public schools of his native town and Madison Academy, from which he was graduated in 1876. He then entered Buffalo Medical College, from which he graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in the class of ,880. In the same year he located at Victor, New York, and began to practice his profession. Since then he has been in active practice, and as a physician and surgeon has achieved high rank in his profession. He is one of the board of directors of the Memorial Hospital of Canandaigua; member of the Canandaigua County Medical Society, the Central New York Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He has held the office of president of the County Medical Society, and has served two terms as coroner of the county. In politics he is a Republican. For several years he was a trustee of the incorporated village, and he is at the present time president of the board of education. In religion he is a Methodist, and he is one of the trustees of the church, and since 1880 had been on the board of that church. He married, April 6, 188t, Hattie A. Brown, who was born at Union Hill, New York, October 20, 1856, a daughter of Robert K. Brown. Children, born at Victor: Edgar R., born July 8. 1884; Dora E.. December 13, 1887: M. Evelyn, May 11, 1892. Their daughter Dora is a member of Iroquois Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Rochester.