424 MEMOIR OF DANIEL TKEADWELL. 



official connection, and the mutual and uninterrupted kindness and respect with which it has 

 been sustained through a series of years, will constitute one of the most grateful and cherished 

 reminiscences of 



Very truly, your friend and obedient servant, 



JOSIAH QCINCY. 



At a special meeting of tlie President and Fellows of Harvard College in Boston, June 7, 

 1845, the President laid before the Board the letter from Professor Treadwell, resigning 

 Ills office of Rumford Professor. Whereupon, — 



Votetl, That tlie President and Fellows receive with great regret the letter of Professor 

 Treadwell, announcing his resignation of the Rumford Professorship in Harvard University, 

 and above all that his infirm state of health should be one of the causes of thus depriving the 

 institution of his valuable services. 



The President and Fellows recognize on this occasion the ability and fidelity with which 

 Mr. Treadwell has fulfilled the duties of his office, and all the satisfaction and benefit the 

 institution has derived from his services ; and in accepting his resignation reciprocate towards 

 him their respectful acknowledgments for the kindness which always characterized his inter- 

 course with them, and their best wishes for the restoration and permanent establishment of 

 his health. 



A true copy of record. Attest, 



James Walker, Secretary of the Corporation. 



As already stated, a joint sto('k company was formed immediately after making 

 the contracts with the United States Government for the thirty-two pounders, and 

 the work at the Mill-dam was still carried on by that company. A new and 

 larger company was formed under the name of the " Steel Cannon Company," which 

 was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of Massachusetts, dated February 26, 

 1845, "For the purpose of manufacturing cannon and an}' machinery that may 

 be used for the manufocture thereof in the Town of Brighton." This company 

 included the gentlemen already named as of the first company, and in addition 

 Messrs. P. T. Jackson, J. A. Lowell, George W. Lyman, and George Gardner. To 

 the new company was transferred the property of the old one, amounting to $50,000, 

 and the capital was raised to $96,000, of which Mr. Treadwell contributed a much 

 larger proportion than any of the others. The inducement to form this company 

 Avas, first, the demonstrated superiority of the guns, and, secondly, an intimation from 

 Washington that they would be adopted, and Colonel Talcott's letter of the 17th of 

 April, 1844, that the Board of Ordnance had already recommended to the Secretary 

 of War the manufacture of the Treadwell guns of various sizes. 



Land was bought in Brighton, conveniently situated for the transportation of 

 materials, by the side of the Boston and Albany Railroad, and the requisite buildings 

 erected. 



