Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1910 — FORMER U. S. TREASURER, WHO DIED OF APOPLEXY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FORMER U. S. TREASURER, WHO DIED OF APOPLEXY.

Charles Henry Treat, treasurer of the United States under President Roosevelt, who recently died of apoplexy, was born in Frankfort, Me., about sixty-eight years ago. Among his ancestors were Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Robert Treat, a colonial governor of .Connecticut. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1865, and at once entered business with his father and brothers, who operated a fleet of twenty-eight vessels engaged In the Import and export’ trade. Tn 1888 he was Delaware’s delegate-at-large to the Republican convention in Chicago and was credited with solidifying the Delaware delegation for Benjamin Harrison.

Soon after McKinley's election he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Wall street district, serving during the Spanish-American war.

Charles H. Treat.