Daniel Treadwell

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1804 to Jesse Churchill in Boston MA ¹

• He was a partner from 1805 to 1813 with Jesse Churchill in Boston MA as CHURCHILL & TREADWELL, with a shop at 88 Newbury Street in Boston. ⁴

• Boston MA, 1813:
Preferring to experiment with mechanical devices, he set aside his trade after the end of his partnership with Jesse Churchill. He patented a power printing press in 1826 and by 1835 had secured several patents for his machines for spinning hemp.

• Appointed in 1829 as President of the Boston Mechanics Institute in Boston MA

• Appointed from 1834 to 1845 as Rumford Professor at Harvard University, in Boston MA

Daniel married Adeline Lincoln on 6 Oct 1831. (Adeline Lincoln was born on 24 May 1804 in Hingham MA and died on 27 May 1885 in Boston MA.)