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Treadway. who died in his infancy. He
was born September 8, 1877.
Mr. Treadway was of a studious,
thoughtful nature, and desired and ob-
tained a thorough and advanced educa-
tion. He completed elementary courses
at the Federal High School, in Bristol, in
1891, and then took the full course at the
Bristol High School, graduating in 1895,
where he was president of his class. He
also did a year of college preparatory
work at Phillips Academy, Andover, in
1895-96. He then entered Yale Univer-
sity, where he was graduated in 1900 with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr.
Treadway spent several months just be-
fore entering business in 1900, touring the
great centers of Great Britain and the
Continent of Europe.
In December, 1900, Mr. Treadway en-
tered upon his business career as treasurer
of the New Departure Manufacturing
Company of Bristol, which office he still
holds. After his father's death in 1905
he was elected vice-president and director
of the Bristol National Bank. After the
death of Edward B. Dunbar, in May, 1907,
Mr. Treadway was elected president of
the bank, and had the distinction of being
the youngest bank president in Connect-
icut, being then under thirty years of
age. In executive ability, experience and
sagacity in matters of finance, he was as
mature as many far older men, and had
the advantage of an unusual training
under his capable father.
Mr. Treadway is interested in many
other corporations of importance in the
business life of Bristol, being vice-president
of the Horton Manufacturing Com-
pany, and a director in the following organizations
: The American Silver Company,
the American Piano Supply Company,
and the Bristol Manufacturing
Company. He was for several years
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president of the Bristol Water Company
until the city of Bristol took it over into
municipal management. He was also a
director of the Bristol and Plainville
Tramway Company for a number of years
after his father's death, and until that
company changed ownership in 1913. He
is one of the incorporators of the Bristol
Savings Bank.
For four years Mr. Treadway was secretary
of the Bristol High School com-
mittee. He was at one time chairman of
the Republican town committee, and did
splendid work in strengthening that party.
In 1912 he was elected an alternate to one
of the Hartford county delegates to the
Republican national convention at Chi-
cago, made famous as the convention
which split the Republican party, and led
to the election for the first time since
Grover Cleveland of a Democratic Con-
gress. In 1914 he became a member of
the State central committee representing
the Fifth Senatorial District. In 1916 he
was a delegate from Hartford county to
the Republican convention at Chicago. In
1918 he retired from the State central
committee, and from active participation
in State or local politics. In 191 5 he was
chairman of the executive committee of
the Connecticut State Bankers' Associa-
tion ; in 1916 its vice-president, and in
1917 its president, serving his full term
of one year, and retiring at the conclu-
sion of the greatest convention probably
ever held by New England bankers, un-
der the direction of the Connecticut Association,
at the Hotel Griswold in New
London. He was for a number of years
active in the management of the affairs of
the Farmington Country Club, of which
his father was a founder and an officer,
and for one year ending October, 1918. he
was the president of the club.
He has been active in many local or-
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