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Richard Worsam Meade
(1778–1828)
BIRTH
June 23, 1778
PLACE
Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
DEATH
June 25, 1828
PLACE
Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States
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Richard Worsam Meade was an American merchant and U.S. consul in Cádiz, Spain, and father of Civil War general George Gordon Meade. He and Margaret Coats Butler had a large family.
EARLY LIFE
He traded in Spain and served as a U.S. consul and agent.
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DEATH
Richard Worsam Meade died in Georgetown on June 25, 1828. The Coats-Butler family Bible records this date; a later family history gives June 26. He was buried in the Meade family vault at St. Mary's Church in Philadelphia.
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