Background
Walden, Treadwell was born on April 25, 1830 in Walden, New York (a town founded by his father). Son of Jacob T. and Beulah Hoffman (Willett) Walden.
Walden, Treadwell was born on April 25, 1830 in Walden, New York (a town founded by his father). Son of Jacob T. and Beulah Hoffman (Willett) Walden.
Educated private schools, New York City, at College of Saint James, Maryland., and Saint Paul’s College, Long Island. Graduate General Theological Seminary, New York, 1853.
Father of Lionel West. Deacon, 1854, priest, 1856, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant, and in charge Trinity Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1854-1856. Rector Christ Church, Norwich, Connecticut, 1857-1863, Saint Clement’s, Philadelphia, 1863-1868, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Indianapolis, 1869-1872, Saint Paul’s, Boston, 1873-1876, Saint Paul’son
Minneapolis, 1882-1885.
Lived in London, England., 1886-1889, writing the “Story of England in Westminster Hall”. Preached in Westminster Abbey, the Royal Chapel.
Savoy, Saint Margaret’s, Westminster, and other English churches Appointed on 2 special commissions by United States Sanitary Commission, 1864, to investigate treatment of prisoners of war, both North and South.
Wrote the official account and edited volunteer of testimony.
Author: Lays of a Lifetime, 1856. The Sunday School Prayer Book. 1860; Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of the United States Officers and Soldiers in Confederate Prisons, 1864.
Our English Bible and Its Ancestors, 1870.
An Undeveloped Chapter in the Life of Christ, 1882. The Great Meaning of Metanoia, in Two Essays, 1896.
Home: Boston, Massachusetts
Married Elizabeth Leighton Law, 1858 (died 1883). Married second, Grace Gordon, 1885.