Background
Streeter was born in Highland Park, Lake County Illinois, the son of Harvey Benjamin Streeter and his wife Fannie Barton Streeter.
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Daniel Streeter
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Harvard University.
Career
He was educated at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and after graduation from Harvard joined Buffalo Weaving & Belting Company, Buffalo, North.Y, becoming the firm"s treasurer. Thus he was described as "once a cotton manufacturer", 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, 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 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.
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Nationality
American