Thomas Winthrop Streeter Sr.

Ruth Cheney

(m. 1917)

Children3ParentLillian 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.^[1]

Biography

He was the son of Frank Sherwin and Lilian Carpenter, 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

^ ^a ^b "Frank S. Streeter, 88, Investor, Philanthropist and Collector". The New York Times. June 17, 2006. Retrieved March 2, 2023. Frank S. Streeter, an investor, philanthropist and collector of rare books and records from sea voyages during the Age of Exploration, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 88. He died after a short illness, his family said. ... Mr. Streeter's father, Thomas Winthrop Streeter, was also a book collector whose collection of Americana was considered one of the most important of its type. It was sold after his death and inspired Mr. Streeter's own interest in book collecting.
^ ^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.