Thomas Winthrop Streeter Sr. (July 20, 1883 – June 12, 1965) was a

book collector Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. The love of books is ''bibliophilia'', and someo ...

whose collection of Americana was considered one of the most important of its kind.

Biography

He was the son of Frank Sherwin and Lilian Carpenter, and he was born in

Concord, New Hampshire Concord () is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2020 census the population was 43,976, making it the third largest city in New Hampshire behind Manchester and Nashua. The village of ...

on July 20, 1883. He was married to Ruth Cheney on July 23, 1917, and they had the following children: Frank S. Streeter (1918–2006), Thomas W. Streeter Jr., and Lillian Streeter Chance (1927-2013). He died in

Morristown, New Jersey Morristown () is a town and the county seat of Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. ...

, on June 12, 1965, and was buried in

Peterborough, New Hampshire Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,418 at the 2020 census. The main village, with 3,090 people at the 2020 census, is defined as the Peterborough census-designated place (CDP) and ...

References

External links

Thomas W. Streeter Papers
Yale Collection of Western Americana. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Streeter, Thomas Winthrop American book and manuscript collectors 1883 births 1965 deaths People from Concord, New Hampshire Presidents of the Bibliographical Society of America