Thomas Dreier (May 5, 1884 – September 4, 1976) was an American editor, writer, advertising executive, and

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. The Thomas Dreier Reading Room at Peter H. Armacost Library,

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is named in his honor. He was born in

Durand, Wisconsin Durand is a city in and the county seat of Pepin County, Wisconsin, United States. Situated on the banks of the Chippewa River approximately from its confluence with the Mississippi River, the city borders the Town of Durand. The population wa ...

in and edited and published his own short-lived paper, ''

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'', in Menomonie in 1903 and 1904. He subsequently moved to the

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area. He built the Frank Chouteau Brown-designed " Snug Gables" in

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, where he lived from 1920 to 1933, and later settled in

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on a farm named "Sunny Meadows" in Melvin Village, Tuftonborough. In 1935 he and his first wife, Blanche Nowell Dreier, moved to

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. In Florida Thomas served as chairman of the

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Board and was a leader in rebuilding the St. Petersburg Public Library. Blanche died in 1960 and in 1961 he married Mary Baker. He died on at his home in . He was the first editor of the ''

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'' magazine.

Selected works

* '' Heroes of Insurgency'' (1910) *
The Story of Three Partners; United Shoe Machinery Company, Beverly, Mass.
' (1911) * ''Silver Lining or Sunshine on the Business Trail'' (1922) * ''Sunny Meadows'' (1933), concerning he and Blanche's life on their farm in New Hampshire *
The Power of Print—and Men
' (1936), with

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* '' Man Hunting, the Greatest Sport'' (1936) *
We Human Chemicals; or, The Knack of Getting Along With Everybody
' (1948)

References

External links

Thomas Dreier Papers
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University of South Florida
People from Durand, Wisconsin Writers from Wisconsin Writers from New Hampshire Editors of Wisconsin newspapers American male non-fiction writers 1976 deaths 1884 births People from Carroll County, New Hampshire People from Winchester, Massachusetts People from St. Petersburg, Florida 20th-century American male writers {{US-journalist-19thC-stub