Daniel Willard Streeter (2 November 1883 – 27 July 1964Date in ''Harvard Alumni Directory'', 1965.), was an American hunter, adventurer and writer active in the 1920s, who lived in

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."Daniel W. Streeter, Buffalo Weaving & Belting Co, Buffalo, N.Y." is listed among the ''Harvard College Class of 1907 Secretary's Fourth Report'', June 1917:493.

Early life

Streeter was born in Highland Park, Lake County Illinois,Daniel Willard Streeter
/ref> the son of Harvey Benjamin Streeter and his wife Fannie Barton Streeter (née Chamberlain). He was educated at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and

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, graduating in 1907.

Career

After graduating from Harvard in 1907, he joined Buffalo Weaving & Belting Co., in

, becoming the firm's treasurer and earning the moniker of "once a cotton manufacturer." There is little information available about his life other than a long list of club and society memberships, which suggest that he was a conscientious objector during

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. Paradoxically, he claimed memberships in both the

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and Society for the Opposition of Women's Suffrage. He wrote several facetious travel books, including ''Denatured Africa'' (1926), ''Camels!'' (1927), which describes a hunting safari in

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near the Blue Nile and the Dinder River, and ''An Arctic Rodeo'' (1929). All three books were published by

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and contain period photography taken in Africa.

''Arctic Rodeo''

''Arctic Rodeo'' is about a trip sponsored by the publisher George Putnam on the schooner ''Ernestina'' to the Arctic regions around

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and

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. He describes the adventures of sailing on the crowded little ship, hunting in the Arctic with brave

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in their

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s, the problems of navigating, the interactions with and lifestyles of Inuit, and the Danish government officials stationed in

Personal life

He married Gertrude Van Dolfson Norton on May 31, 1908, in

. The couple resided at 770 Lafayette Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Norton was the daughter of Porter Norton, granddaughter of Charles Davis Norton and Jeannette ( Phelps) Norton, great-granddaughter of Oliver Phelps III, 2x great-granddaughter of Oliver Leicester Phelps, and 3x great-granddaughter of Oliver Phelps and Elizabeth "Betsey" Law Sherman. Sherman was the granddaughter of American founding father

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. Street and Norton had: * Daniel Barton Streeter (1909-1994), who married Frances "Fanny" Goodyear (1914-1975), daughter of Bradley Goodyear, in 1949. Goodyear was previously married to Prince Ludwig Della Torre e Tasso (1908-1985), the son of Prince Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 1st Duke of Castel Duino from 1939 to 1948. Goodyear's grandfather was industrialist

Charles W. Goodyear Charles Waterhouse Goodyear (October 15, 1846 – April 16, 1911) was an American lawyer, businessman, lumberman, and member of the prominent Goodyear family of New York. Based in Buffalo, New York, along with his brother, Frank, Charles was the ...

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of the

Great Southern Lumber Company The Great Southern Lumber Company was chartered in 1902 to harvest and market the virgin longleaf pine (''Pinus palustris'' L.) forests in southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. Bogalusa, Louisiana was developed from the ground up a ...

and

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. After Goodyear's death, Streeter married Elizabeth V. Clemson, the granddaughter of the George N. Clemson, inventor of the hack saw blade. Clemson had previously been married to Thomas Dewitt Vander Voort. Streeter died on July 27, 1964, in Buffalo.

Published works

*''Denatured Africa'' (1926) *''Camels!'' (1927) *''An Arctic Rodeo'' (1929)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Streeter, Daniel W. 1883 births 1964 deaths The Hill School alumni Harvard College alumni The Harvard Lampoon alumni American travel writers American male non-fiction writers Baffin Bay Writers from Buffalo, New York 20th-century American male writers