MEMOIR OF DANIEL TREADWELL. »1 



To Daniel Treadwell, Esq. 



HOSTON 



Dear Sir, — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and the cheel 

 of forty dollars in behalf of the Mechanics 1 Institution which was enclosed in it. Allow me the 



favor to return the check, with the request that the Institution will be pleased to apply th 



amount towards the increase of their apparatus. 



No man can be more sensible than myself of the deficiencies of my introductory dil ourse. 



But the kind terms in which you are pleased to express the satisfaction of the Institution with 



me 



consolation. I beg to add that I shall ever esteem it a fortunate occurrence to have connected 



Wishing it and yourself even suco *>, 



my 



1 have the honor to remain, with the highest respect, your obliged friend, 



Josil-H StoBI 



On resigning the office of President, in 1881, Mr. Treadwell received the following 



acknowledgment of his services. 



To Daniel Tbeadwell, Esq. 



1?< POH, April 26, 1831. 



Dear Sir, — I have the honor to inform yon that the following vote was paa d unani- 

 mously at the annual meeting of the Boston Mechanics' Institution, Ixld in the lecture- room of 

 the Athenaeum on Monday evening last : 



" Voted, That the thanks of the Institution be presented to Mr. Daniel Treadwell, for the 

 valuable services which he has rendered to it during the last two years in the office of 



President." 



Allow me, sir, to add an expression of the pleasure I feel in communicating a vote, the 

 sentiments of which are so much in accordance with my own. 



With great respect, I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, 



F. C. Whiston, 



Recording Sect mj B. M. I. 



In 1838, when the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' A sociation was found* 1, 

 all the apparatus belonging to the Boston Mechanics' Institution was transferred to 

 it, and the latter ceased to exist. 



While still continuing the manufacture of his printing-press, and superintending 

 the nail-machines on the Mill-dam, Mr. Treadwell, on the 11th of March, 1825, was 

 appointed by the Hon. Josiah Quincy, Mayor of Boston, acting in behalf of the 

 Board of Mayor and Aldermen, " a Commissioner to ascertain the practicability of 

 supplying the city with good water for the domestic use of the inhabitants, as well 

 as for the extinguishing of fires, and for all the general purposes of comfort and 

 cleanliness." 



