Alfred Tredway was born in New York City in 1817 and raised at Salem, Connecticut; the 1911 history traces the family to three brothers from Bristol, England, who crossed in 1638. He and his wife Elizabeth (Taft) Tredway first came to Dubuque in 1849 and settled there for good in 1851, when Alfred opened an iron foundry that later became the Iowa Iron Works. In 1853 he went into the hardware business with William Andrew as Andrew & Tredway, a firm the family was still running fifty-eight years later as the A. Tredway & Sons Hardware Company. Their son Harry E. Tredway, born in Dubuque in 1861, joined the firm out of high school in 1878, became its secretary when it was incorporated in 1889 and its president in 1902, and also headed the John Ernsdorff Iron Company and the Dubuque board of education. Every fact below is cited to the public-domain 1911 History of Dubuque County.
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Iron founder and hardware merchant
President, A. Tredway & Sons Hardware Company
Harry E. Tredway, president of the John Ernsdorff Iron Company, is a son of the old pioneers; Alfred and Elizabeth (Taft) Tredway, who first came to Dubuque in 1849, ank3 permanently settled here in 185 1. The family, originally, came from Bristol, England, three brothers crossing in 1638, the direct ancestor of the subject of this sketch locating in the colony of Sudbury, Connecticut. Alfred Tredway was born in New York city in 18 17 and was reared and educated at Salem, Connecticut. Upon his permanent location in Dubuque he opened an iron foundry, which afterwards became the Iowa Iron Works. In partnership with William Andrew, under the firm name of Andrew & Tredway, he embarked in the hardware business in 1853, and this business has been carried on during the intervening fifty-eight years by members of the Tredway family, the firm now being style the A. Tredway & Sons Hardware Company. The great length of time in active business, the unvarying honesty with which its affairs have been conducted and the unwavering stability of the credit of the house during the various financial panics have made the name of Tredway a synonym for commercial honor throughout Dubuque and the surrounding community. Elizabeth (Taft) Tredway is a second cousin of President William H. Taft and a descendant of Robert Taft, of Mendon, Massachusetts. Alfred Tredway was one of the foremost characters of his day in Dubuque and in addition to being financially interested in numerous public and private enterprises was one of the foremost men in the upbuilding of the city.
Harry E. Tredway was born in Dubuque, June 30, 1861, attended the public schools in early youth, was graduated from the high school in 1878, and immediately thereafter entered the employ of Andrew & Tredway, and the succeeding firm of A. Tredway & Sons Hardware Company. For eleven years he was a traveling salesman for the firm, but upon its reorganization. and incorporation in 1889 he was elected secretary, serving as such until 1902, since which date he has been its president. Mr. Tredway is also vice president of the Metz Manufacturing Company, president of the Dubuque Shippers' Association, president of the board of education, member of the Dubuque Club and of the Dubuque Golf Club; he is a Republican in politics. To his marriage with Miss Marion McConnel, daughter of Major George Murray McConnel, at one time financial and literary editor of the Chicago Chronicle, which was solemnized June 22, 1887, three daughters have been born: Margaret, Helen and Mary Leslie.
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