Isaac J. Meade, vice-president of the Lawrence National Bank, is a native of Missouri, born on his father's farm in Davis county, that state, Feb. 22, 1870. He is a son of Richard T. and Miram (McCulley) Meade, the former born in Kentucky, and the latter in Missouri. Farming was his father's occupation, and the son was reared on the farm, receiving a common school education, which was completed in the high school and normal school at Pattonsburg, Mo. For five years he was in the hardware business at Pattonsburg and then, in 1894, began his career in the banking business, at Locksprings, Mo., where he remained ten years, as a bank cashier. In 1904 he went to Colorado and organized the First National Bank at Loveland, of which bank he served as cashier up to August, 1907. In March, 1908, he became identified with the Lawrence National Bank, of Lawrence, Kan., as vice-president, and since then has been actively connected with that banking institution, and has resided in Lawrence. He is recognized as an able banker and as a man of good business judgment. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1893 he married Miss Annie E. Enfield.