Daniel Willard Streeter
| Daniel Willard Streeter | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 2, 1883 Highland Park, Illinois |
| Died |
July 27, 1964 (aged 80) Buffalo, New York |
| Education | The Hill School |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Occupation | Hunter, adventurer and author |
| Spouse(s) | Gertrude Van Dolfson Norton |
| Parent(s) |
Harvey Benjamin Streeter Fannie Barton Chamberlain |
Daniel Willard Streeter (2 November 1883 – 27 July 1964[1]), S.B. Harvard College, 1907,[2] was an American hunter, adventurer and author active in the 1920s, who lived in Buffalo, New York.
Early life
Streeter was born in Highland Park, Lake County Illinois,[3] the son of Harvey Benjamin Streeter and his wife Fannie Barton Streeter (nee Chamberlain).[4] He was educated at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Harvard College, graduating in 1907.[5]
Career
After graduation from Harvard joined Buffalo Weaving & Belting Co, Buffalo, N.Y, becoming the firm's treasurer; thus he was described as "once a cotton manufacturer",[6] there seems to be little information available about Mr. Streeter's life other than a long list of club and society memberships, which suggest that he was a conscientious objector during World War I but claim memberships both in National Women's Suffrage League and Society for the Opposition of Women's Suffrage,[7] and material contained in his facetious travel books, which include Denatured Africa (1926), Camels! (1927), which describes a hunting safari in Sudan near the Blue Nile and the Dinder River, and An Arctic Rodeo (1929). All three books were published by G.P.Putnam's Sons (New York and London) and contain interesting period photography.
Arctic Rodeo is about a trip sponsored by the publisher George Putnam on the schooner Ernestina[8] to the Arctic regions around Greenland and Baffin Bay. He describes the adventures of sailing on the crowded little ship, hunting in the Arctic with brave Inuit in their kayaks, the problems of navigating, the interactions with and lifestyles of Inuit, and the Danish government officials stationed in Greenland.
Personal life
He married Gertrude Van Dolfson Norton on May 31, 1908 in Buffalo, New York.[9] Norton was the daughter of Porter Norton,[10] granddaughter of Jeannette Phelps, 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 Roger Sherman. Street and Norton had:
- Daniel Barton Streeter (1909-1994), who married Frances "Fanny" Goodyear (1914-1975) in 1949.[11] 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[12] from 1939 to 1948.[11] Goodyear's grandfather was industrialist Charles W. Goodyear, president of the Great Southern Lumber Company and Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad. 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.[13]
He resided at 770 Lafayette Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Streeter died on July 27, 1964[14]
Published works
- Denatured Africa (1926)
- Camels! (1927)
- An Arctic Rodeo (1929)
References
- ↑ Date in Harvard Alumni Directory, 1965..
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Daniel Willard Streeter
- ↑ Harvard College Class of 1907 Secretary's Fourth Report, June 1917:355.
- ↑ Date in Harvard Alumni Directory, 1965..
- ↑ "Dan Streeter, once a cotton manufacturer, is now a dilettante traveler and is,,, effusively, debonairly articulate about it." The Technology Review (M.I.T.) vol 30, no. 4 (1927) p. 233 (reviewing Denatured Africa).
- ↑ Harvard College Class of 1907 Secretary's Fourth Report, June 1917:355f.
- ↑ 1926 www.ernestina.org
- ↑ "Van Dolfson" in Census reports; "Van Doefalen" in Harvard College Class of 1907 Secretary's Fourth Report, June 1917, apparently a misreading of Streeter's handwriting
- ↑ Daniel Willard Streeter
- 1 2 "Princeton Alumni Weekly". books.google.com. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 1 January 1948. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ "FANNY GOODYEAR WED TO PRINCE ON JUNE 10". The New York Times. June 23, 1939. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ↑ "Elizabeth Streeter". www.legacy.com/. Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ Date in Harvard Alumni Directory, 1965..
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