Daniel Willard Streeter


Daniel Willard Streeter, 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, the son of Harvey Benjamin Streeter and his wife Fannie Barton Streeter. He was educated at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Harvard College, graduating in 1907.

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." 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.
He wrote several facetious travel books, including Denatured Africa, Camels!, which describes a hunting safari in Sudan near the Blue Nile and the Dinder River, and An Arctic Rodeo. 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 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. The couple resided at 770 Lafayette Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Norton was the daughter of Porter Norton, 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:
Streeter died on July 27, 1964 in Buffalo.

Published works