Background
John Treat was born on December 2, 1812 in New York, United States. He was the son of Judge John Treat Irving and Abby Spicer (Furman) Irving, and a nephew of Washington Irving.
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The Attorney, Or, the Correspondence of John Quod
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Indian Sketches: Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes; Volume 1
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John Treat Irving
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John Treat was graduated from Columbia College at sixteen. Later, he studied law under Daniel Lord.
Career
In 1833 Irving accompanied Henry L. Ellsworth, the government commissioner whom Washington Irving had accompanied the year before, on a journey to make treaties with the Pawnee Indians. This expedition resulted in John Treat Irving's Indian Sketches (1835, 1888).
After his return to New York, he was admitted to the New York bar; and was for a time a law partner of Gardiner Spring. From 1835 to 1837 he traveled widely in Europe. He began practicing law in 1834, when his name first appears as attorney in Longworth's New York Directory, and ostensibly continued in the profession for many years; but his interest in the law seems to have been nominal, and there were brief periods when he conducted a brokerage and real-estate business. Whether or not, as has been said, he retired from business in 1887.
Indian Sketches and The Hunters of the Prairie, or The Hawk Chief: A Tale of the Indian Country (1837) were expressions of the gentlemanly and urban concern for the frontier which so interested Washington Irving on his return from Europe in 1832, and was responsible for so many books which, as Philip Hone once said, a New Yorker could read comfortably in the evening before a fireplace, sitting in bath gown and slippers by his astral lamp.
His Van Gelder Papers, and Other Sketches (1887, 1895) obviously owe their origin to the current enthusiasm for indigenous American subjects through the Dutch tradition, a fashion inaugurated by the greater Irving. Some of these sketches suggest strongly the influence of Part IV of Washington Irving's Tales of a Traveller. Likewise in John Treat Irving's The Attorney (1842); or the Benevolent Bachelor (1844), both of which appeared originally in The Knickerbocker.
He died in 1906.
Achievements
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John Treat Irving was the president and literature of the Institute for the Blind. He echoed tastes of his epoch in his contributions to magazines and miscellanies. His John Treat Irving's The Attorney, the Benevolent Bachelor, although now chiefly an antiquarian interest, reveal John Treat Irving as a minor man of letters borne along on the wave of pre-Civil War literary tastes.
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The Attorney, Or, the Correspondence of John Quod
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Indian Sketches: Taken During an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes; Volume 1
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The Attorney, Or, the Correspondence of John Quod
Religion
It is certain that much of his life he devoted to his own special interests-the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Membership
Irving was a member of the New York Chess Club, the St. Nicholas Society.
Connections
On June 5, 1838, Irving married Helen Schermerhorn, whose family name occurs frequently in the letters of all the Irvings of this period.
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Religion
Episcopal Church