Carpenter Meader, son of Nicholas Meader (bc.1780) [0124] and Margaret Bull (  –  ), was born, probably in Starksboro, VT, about 1805. The 1850 Census lists him as then 45. He appears to have moved with his parents to Farnham, Quebec, to Ohio and perhaps with them back to Pennsylvania after 1838, where he was living at the time of the birth of his son. In the 1850 Census he is listed as then living in Conneaut Township, Crawford County, PA, a farmer born in Vermont. With him at that time was his wife, Harriet, aged 35 and William H. Paishall, aged 13. The latter may have been Harriet's son by a former marriage.