Daniel W. Streeter
Daniel Willard Streeter (2 November 1883 – 27 July 1964[1]), was an American hunter, adventurer and writer active in the 1920s, who lived in Buffalo, New York.[2]
Daniel W. Streeter | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 2, 1883 |
| Died | July 27, 1964 (aged 80) |
| Education | The Hill School |
| Alma mater | Harvard College (S.B. 1907) |
| Occupation(s) | Hunter, adventurer and author |
| Known for | Arctic Rodeo |
| Spouse | Gertrude Van Dolfson Norton |
| Children | Daniel Barton Streeter |
| Parent(s) | Harvey Benjamin Streeter Fannie Barton Chamberlain |
Early life
Streeter was born in Highland Park, Lake County Illinois,[3] the son of Harvey Benjamin Streeter and his wife Fannie Barton Streeter (née Chamberlain).[4] He was educated at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Harvard College, graduating in 1907.[1]
Career
After graduating from Harvard in 1907, he joined Buffalo Weaving & Belting Co., in Buffalo, New York, becoming the firm's treasurer and earning the moniker of "once a cotton manufacturer."[5] 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 World War I. Paradoxically, he claimed memberships in both the National Woman Suffrage Association and Society for the Opposition of Women's Suffrage.[6]
He wrote several facetious travel books, including Denatured Africa (1926),[7] 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 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[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.[9]
Personal life
He married Gertrude Van Dolfson Norton on May 31, 1908, in Buffalo, New York. The couple resided at 770 Lafayette Avenue in Buffalo, New York.[10] Norton was the daughter of Porter Norton,[3] granddaughter of Charles Davis Norton and Jeannette (née 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 Roger Sherman. Street and Norton had:
- Daniel Barton Streeter (1909-1994), who married Frances "Fanny" Goodyear (1914-1975), daughter of Bradley Goodyear, 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]
Streeter died on July 27, 1964, in Buffalo.[1]
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.
- "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.
- "Burlesquing the Big Game Hunter DENATURED AFRICA By Daniel W Streeter Illustrated. 3 pp. New York G.P. Putnam's Sons". The New York Times. June 5, 1927. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- 1926 www.ernestina.org Archived 2006-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Streeter, Daniel W. (1929). An Arctic Rodeo. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 9781417928972. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- "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
- "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.