HARDY P. TREADWELL, M. D., physician and surgeon, of Geneva, was born in Daleville, Dale County, December 28, 1859. After receiving his education in the common schools of his native county he went, when twenty years of age, to Pike County, and in company with his brother, who is now a prominent physician of Troy, bought a farm and engaged in farming for two years. In the meantime, when twenty-one years old, he commenced reading medicine, and in his twenty-third year he entered the medical college at Mobile, taking two courses of lectures.He then opened an office at Echo, Dale county, and began the practice of his profession, remaining there for two years. Then, on the 25th of December,1884,he removed to Geneva, and has been engaged there in the practice of his profession ever since. He is the son of William A. and Lucy A.Sorrell Treadwell.Hardy Price Treadwell was married, in 1879, to Miss. Fannie E. Warren, daughter of William G. Warren. She was born in Eufaula,Alabama in 1860, and received a good education. She was married in her seventeenth year. She is now the mother of two children, Mertie E., attending school at Eufaula, and Willie D., attending the Geneva High School. Mrs. Treadwell has a millinery establishment adjoining her husband's drug store. Dr. Treadwell has worked his way up from a poor boy to his present position as one of the leading physicians of Geneva County. His practice is very extensive and covers the adjoining counties in Alabama, and extends into Holmes County,Florida. He has accumulated property of considerable value. Beside his drug store and residence property he owns a fine plantation of 200 acres of land. He has been identified with every movement and enterprise calculated to advance the interests of the city and county of Geneva, and is recognized as one of the county's most public-spirited citizens.