Daniel M. Tredwell papers 1840-1914

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Daniel M. Tredwell papers 1840-1914

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3028

Daniel Melancthon Tredwell (1825-1921) was an American businessman and bibliophile from Brooklyn, N.Y., who wrote about life and history on Long Island. Collection contains two holograph manuscripts by Tredwell. One manuscript, 1914, is a history of the book trade in Brooklyn during the 19th century. The other consists of his reminiscences in diary entries from 1840 to 1881, with notes dating as late as 1892, and concerns people and events in Brooklyn, Queens and Hempstead, Long Island, New York.

.4 linear foot (1 box)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Tredwell, Daniel M. (Daniel Melancthon), 1826-1921

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Daniel Melancthon Tredwell (1826-1921) was a lawyer, Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn, officer of the Home Title Insurance Company of Brooklyn and, most relevant for this collection, author of local histories concerning Brooklyn and Long Island. He was born near Freeport, L.I. and died in Brooklyn. He was a member of the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society), the Kings County Historical Society and the American Ethnological Society, among other organiza...