Background
Dreier, Thomas was born on May 5, 1884 in on farm near Durand, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Lawrence and Delia (Maloney) Dreier.
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Thomas Dreier
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Educated parochial school and Durand (Wisconsin) High School. Graduate 1902; also studied for the R.C. priesthood.
Career
After graduation from high school led a vagabond life, specialty salesman in Colorado and northern Wisconsin, bartender, confectioner, millhand, barber, waiter, “devil” and foreman of print shop. Reporter Menomonie (Wisconsin) Times, 1904-1906, Madison (Wisconsin) Democrat and Wisconsin State Journal, 1907. Business manager Sheldon University Press (Chicago) and managing editor Business Philosopher, 1908-1909.
Editor The Caxton, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, January-July 1910. Editor The Blackbone Monthly, Aurora, Illinois, and managing editor “Human Life,” Boston, 1910. Edited The Printing Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts Head of The Thomas Dreier Service, advertising, Boston.
Author: Devil of Fear, 1910. Human Chemicals, 1910. Heroes of Insurgency, 1910.
Vagabond Trail, 1913. The Silver Lining, 1923. Sunny Meadows, 1933; The Mountain Road, 1935.
Men—and the Power of Print, 1936. The Religion of a Vagabond, 1946. We Human Chemicals, 1948.
Home: Melvin Village, N.H. Also St. Petersburg, Fla.
Connections
Married Blanche E. Nowell, December 24, 1914.
