Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
L. L. Treat, a Resident of Webster
City During the Past Fifty.
Five Years, Dies at
Family Home.
WAS PAST SO YEARS OF AGE
Close of Long and Successful Bust
ness Career-Survived by
Wife and Daughter.

| l.. l.. Treat, one OF the Oldest and
most highly respected settlers of this
city, passed peacefully away last
night at $50 o'clock at his home on
Wilson avenue, having sustained
several paralytic strokes-the Gull
mination of several ailments due to
his advanced age. He was taken SER
iously i'll little over week ago and
since that time it was known that
his condition was very grave. The
end therefore was not unexpected.
Mr.. Treat did not give up his daily
Office work until two years ago or
whereabouts in spite of his more than
eighty years and for more than a
half century was a familiar figure
upon the business streets of this city.
About four months ago he suffered
slight paralytic stroke and since
then has been belfast much of the
time.
l.. L. Treat was born in Aurora,
New York, on April 80, 1927. While
still young he moved with an old
er brother to Southern Wisconsin,
locating in Walworth county, where
he grew to manhood, clerking for a
nominal salary, barely sufficient to
furnish his board and clothes. He
then, in company with Kendall
Young, came to Iowa and engaged in
business in Marshall county under
the firm name of Young & Treat. A
year later he moved to Kossuth coun-
ty, where he followed milling, farm
ing and merchandising and while
there Mr.. Treat was elected treas
urer and recorder of Kossouth coun-
ty. In 1860, Mr.. Treat came to
Webster City and embarked in mer-
chandiZing the old town hall on
Seneca street. Later he built with
others the Commercial Block on Sem
eca street, the old three-store room
brick recently occupied by the Dyon
store on the corner, the other
two store rooms being vacant at
present. Here he carried on very
successful business, always holding
that square dealing had it's own re-
ward. In addition to his mercantile
interests, Which Mr.. Treat thought
too small for his whole time, he
sought broader fields and made quite
extensive transactions in real estate,
grain, etc. He went out Of the mer-
camille business many years since,
but had continued his other inter-
ests up until year or two ago, when
he closed his down town office and
retired from taking active part in
business affairs. Through his great
industry, good business judgment
and frugal habits, Mr.. Treat accum-
ulated fortune equalling that per-
haps OF any citizen VINO has ever re-
sided in this county.
Mr.. Treat was married in 1871 to
Miss Laura A. Cooper, a native of
Pennsylvania and one of the best
known and most highly esteemed
young women of Webster City. To
this union were born one son and
one daughter, Carroll L. and Miss
Teresa.
c. l.. Treat passed away in Frank
lin, Pennsylvania, six or seven years
ago and was brought to this city for
burial in Graceland cemetery. Be-
side the wife and daughter, Mr..
Treat leaves no other near living
relatives, except a sister in Minneap-
oils, whose daughter, Mrs. Hend-
ricks, is expected to arrive in this
city this afternoon.
The funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock
at the family home on Wilson av-
enue, Rev. H. L. Haywood of the
Universalist church officiating.
One by one those who helped to
eStaDllSn pioneer standards in Web |
ster City are slipping away and in
very few years their names will be
only a memory, but the foundation
of integrity and honorable dealings
with all men which they laid, will
an indestructible monument
to their high character. Kind to his
esteemed by his friends and
L. L. Treat was an en-
ample of certain type of fine man
hood and for these traits will be
widely lamented.
One Hundred and Eightieth Visit.
Providence permitting, you may
be sure that he will make as many