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firm, 1849-53. He started forty clipper ships for California in 1849, He was married at Louis- ville, Ky., Oct. 5, 1851, to a daughter of Col. George T. M. Davis, editor of the Louisville Courier. Mrs. Train died in 1877, leaving three children : Susan Minerva (born 1855), wife of Philip Dunbar Guelager, a resident of Stamford, Conn., in 1903 ; George Francis, Jr. (born 1856), in business in San Francisco, Cal., in 1903; and Elroy McHenry (born 1857), a resident of Chicago, III., in 1903. In 1853 Mr. Train estab- lished the firm of George F. Train & Co., agents for the '• White Star '' line, Melbourne, Australia, where he remained until 1858, returning that year to London for the purpose of placing the first mortgage bonds of tlie Atlantic and Great West- ern railroad. In 1859 he made his first efforts to introduce street railways into England, the United States and Australia. After his return to the United States in 1862, he went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he projected the Union Pacific railway, through the Credit Mobilier trust, which was built, 1862-69, and owned real-estate con- sisting of 5000 lots valued at $30,000,000, which property, despite foreclosure proceedings, con- tinued to remain in his possession, although he was deprived of its occupancy and control, hav- ing been legally declared insane. In 1868 he built "Train Villa," in Newport, R.I. He was l^robably one of the organizers of the French commune, October, 1870, after his return from a trip " Around the World in Eighty Days," as re- corded by Jules Verne in 1873. He was an inde- pendent candidate for President against Grant and Greeley, in 1871-72 ; was imprisoned for six months in 1874, for libellous publications during the Beecher-Tilton controversy ; made a third trip around the world in 1890, and a fourth in 1892, accomplishing the feat in sixty days, then the shortest known record. In addition to his lectures, delivered in the principal cities of the world, he is the author of : A7i American Mer- chant in Europe, Asia and Australia, and Young America Abroad (1857); Yo^lng America in Wall- Street (1858); Spread Eagleism, and Every Man His Own Autocrat (1859); Young America in Slavery, and Observations on Street Raihvays (1860) ; George Francis Train, Unionist, on Thomas Colley Grattan, Secessionist (1861); Train's Union Speeches (1862) ; Downfall of Eng- land (1865); Irish Independency (1865); Cham- inonship of Women (1868), and 3Iy Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands (1902). In 1903 Mr. Train was residing at Mills Hotel in New York city.

TREADWELL, John, delegate, was born in Farmington, Conn., Nov. 23, 1745. He was grad- uated from Yale, A.B., 1767, A.M., 1770, and practised law in Farmington ; was a represent-

ative in the Connecticut legislature, 1776-85 ; and a member of the governor's council in 1785. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1785- 86 ; judge of the probate and supreme court of errors, 1789-1809, and judge of the court of com- mon pleas for three years. He was lieutenant- governor of Connecticut, 1798-1800 ; a delegate to the Hartford convention that ratified the U.S. constitution in 1788, and governor of Connec- ticut, 1809-11. He was president of the Amer- ican Board of Commissionei-s for Foreign Mis- sions. The honorary degree of LL.D. was con- ferred on him by Yale in 1800. He died in Farm- ington, Conn., Aug. 19, 1823.

TREAT, Robert, colonial governor of Connec- ticut, was born in Pitminster, near Taunton, Somerset, England in 1622 ; son of Richard and Alice (Gaylord) Treat. His parents settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1635, removing in 1637 to Wethersfield, Conn. His father was deputy, 1644-58 ; governor's assistant, 1657-65, and one of the patentees named in the charter granted by Charles II. Robert removed to Milford in 1639, and became active in laying out the town lands ; was lieutenant and captain of the train-band ; a delegate to the general assembly of New Haven colony, 1653-59, and a member of the governor's council, 1659-64. He was elected magistrate of Milford and a substitute for one of the commis- sioners to the colonial council. He was a member of the committee to settle the difficulties between Massachusetts, New Haven and Connec- ticut. In. 1666 he removed to Newark, N.J., and served as town clerk and deputy to the general assembly, but in 1671 he returned to Milford. He was major of a company of Connecticut dragoons, and in 1675 was appointed commander-in-chief of the colonial troops on the outbreak of King Philip's war. He also took part in the Narragan- sett war, engaging in the " fort fight", Dec. 19, 1675. He was appointed deputy governor. May 11, 1676, and on the death of Gov. AVilliam Leete, in 1683, he succeeded to the chair. He refused to give up the charter of the colony to Governor Andros, Oct. 13, 1687, and during a long discus- sion that lasted until dark, the candles were sud- denly put out and when re-lighted the charter had disappeared. It was hidden in a hollow tree, afterward known as the " Charter Oak." Treat was later appointed colonel of the New Haven county militia, and on May 9, 1869, on the depo- sition of Andros, he continued in the office of governor, serving till 1698, when he became deputy governor, which office he held till 1708. He %vas twice married, first to Jane, daughter of Judge Edmund Sapp of Milford, and secondly to Eliza- beth, daughter of Michael and Abigail Powell of Boston. His son, Samuel Treat, 1648-72, was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1669, A.M., 1672,