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.[1]

Biography

He was the son of Frank Sherwin and Lillian Carpenter Streeter, and he was born in Concord, New Hampshire on July 20, 1883.[2][3] 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).[3][1]

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. [4]

He died in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 12, 1965, and was buried in Peterborough, New Hampshire.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Frank S. Streeter, 88, Investor, Philanthropist and Collector". The New York Times. June 17, 2006. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Thomas Winthrop Streeter, Sr". Retrieved February 14, 2007.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Heaney, Howell J. “Thomas W. Streeter, Collector, 1883-1965.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 65, no. 3 (1971): 243–56.
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