Treat, John Harvey
author, was born July 23, 1839, in Pittsfield, N. H. He received his education at Phillips Andover academy, and in 1862 graduated from Harvard college. After graduating he engaged in business with his father in Lawrence, Mass.; and has traveled extensively in Europe and the east; and is a member of the various historical societies in America and in England. In 1888 he presented to Harvard a large collection of rare books; and to its museum of comparative zoölogy he gave his large collection of entomological specimens. He is the author of Notes on the Rubrics; Truro Baptism; The Catholic Faith; A Genealogy of the Treat Family; and other works. In addition to which he has privately printed pamphlets on theological and archæological subjects.