BIO: George Curtis Treadwell; New York State
surname: Treadwell

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

George Curtis Treadwell, Military Secretary, has been appointed to that
position by three Governors of the State, Governor Black, Governor Roosevelt,
and Governor Hughes. He is descended from English ancestors who settled in
Ipswich, Mass., in 1630. His grandfather found the fur house of George C.
Treadwell & Company. His father, George H. Treadwell, was a soldier of the
Civil War, enlisting as a private and ending his military career as a major.
Major Treadwell later was a Civil Service Commissioner of this State and
Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. George Curtis
Treadwell was educated in hart's School at Farmington, Conn.; in Sedgwick's
School at Great Barrington, Conn., and finally in the Sheffield Scientific
School, of Yale University. Colonel Treadwell graduated from Yale in the class
of 1893. He then entered upon busines slife as Secretary and Director of the
George C. Treadwell Company. He continued with that Company up to 189t. For
ten years afterward he was Secretary and Director of the Economic Power and
Construction Company, and since 1905 he has been connected as Secretary,
Treasurer, and Director with the Citizens' Economic Power Company. He also as
acted as President and Director of the Art Students League of Albany, N.Y.,
and as a trustee of estates.

Colonel Treadwell enlisted in the New York State National Guard as a private
in the Third Signal Corps. In 1897 he was appointed a Colonel and Military
Secretary by Governor Black and was assigned to important missions, tours of
inspection of camps and military hospitals. Governor Roosevelt reappointed
Colonel Treadwell as Military Secretary, making the first precedent of this
nature. Colonel Treadwell is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, of the Veteran Association and of the Thrid Signal Corps, N.G.N.Y., of
the Military Service Institution of the United States, of the Order of
Founders and Patriots of the United States, of the Society of Colonial Wars,
the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and an Associate Companion of Lewis
O. Morris Post No. 121, Grand Army of the Republic. Colonel Treadwell also is
a member of the Yale Club, the University Glee Club of New York city, of the
Yale Alumni Association of Eastern New York, and of the University Club of
Albany, of the Albany Country Club, of the Albany Chamber of Commerce, and of
numerous other organizations. At the beginning of 1907 Governor Hughes
appointed him Military Secretary.