Thomas Winthrop Streeter Sr.
Thomas W. Streeter Sr. | |
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![]() Thomas Streeter in 1919 | |
Born | Thomas Winthrop Streeter July 20, 1883 Concord, New Hampshire |
Died | June 12, 1965 Morristown, New Jersey | (aged 81)
Education | Dartmouth College Harvard Law School[1] |
Occupation(s) | businessman, collector |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | Frank Sherwin Streeter, Lillian Carpenter Streeter |
Thomas Winthrop Streeter Sr. (July 20, 1883 – June 12, 1965) was a book collector whose collection of Americana was considered one of the most important of its kind.[2]
Biography
[edit]He was the son of Frank Sherwin and Lillian Carpenter Streeter, and he was born in Concord, New Hampshire on July 20, 1883.[3][4] He was married to Ruth Cheney on July 23, 1917, and they had the following children: Frank S. Streeter (1918–2006), Henry S. Streeter (1920-2001), Thomas W. Streeter (1922-2022) and Lillian Streeter Chance (1927-2013).[4][2]
Streeter was President of the Bibliographical Society of America in 1942-1943. He was also Chairman, Friends of the Dartmouth College Library; Associate, John Carter Brown Library; Council of Fellows, Pierpont Morgan Library; director, Friends Huntington Library; visiting committees of libraries at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and the McGregor Library; fellow. California Historical Society; council, Grolier Club, trustee and treasurer of the New York Historical Society, and president, American Antiquarian Society. [5]
He died in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 12, 1965, and was buried in Peterborough, New Hampshire.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44498055.pdf
- ^ a b "Frank S. Streeter, 88, Investor, Philanthropist and Collector". The New York Times. June 17, 2006. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
- ^ a b "Thomas Winthrop Streeter, Sr". Retrieved February 14, 2007.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Henry Harrison; Abbott, Frances M., eds. (1919). One Thousand New Hampshire Notables. The Rumford Printing Company. p. 515. Retrieved March 2, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Heaney, Howell J. “Thomas W. Streeter, Collector, 1883-1965.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 65, no. 3 (1971): 243–56.
External links
[edit]- Thomas W. Streeter Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.