Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

LEWIS TREADWAY, Central Hotel, Beardstown; was born near 
Monroe, in this county, March 3, 1837, and came to 
Beardstown with his parents in 1843. His father, John 
Treadway, was a native of Maryland, and a cooper by trade, 
with whom the son learned that trade, and at which he (our 
subject) worked until 1864, running a shop of his own for 
four years in Beardstown, after which he engaged in 
merchandising for thirteen years, traveling for a house in 
Peoria two years. In 1874 he bought the old Palmer House, 
which he ran five years, when it was destroyed by fire. He 
built the present Central Hotel on its site, which contains 
twenty-one large rooms for guests, a sample room and all 
modern conveniences. The father and three uncles of our 
subject were in the war of 1812. In December, 1822, the 
father married Miss Rebecca McKane, of Hamilton, Ohio, who 
bore her husband eleven children. The old couple are still 
living, he, in his eighty-seventh, and she, in her eighty-
second year.

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