Thomas Winthrop Streeter Sr.

Thomas Winthrop Streeter Sr. (July 20, 1883 – June 12, 1965) was a book collector 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 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), Henry S Streeter(1920-2001), Thomas W Streeter (1922-2022) and Lillian Streeter Chance (1927-2013).

Streeter was President of the Bibliographical Society of America in 1942-1943. He was also Chairman, Friends of the Dartmouth College Library; Associate, John Carter Brown Library; Council of Fellows, Pierpont Morgan Library; director, Friends Huntington Library; visiting committees of libraries at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and the McGregor Library; fellow. California Historical Society; council, Grolier Club, trustee and treasurer of the New York Historical Society, and president, American Antiquarian Society.

He died in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 12, 1965, and was buried in Peterborough, New Hampshire.