Thomas Dreier
Thomas Dreier (May 5, 1884 – September 4, 1976)[1] was an American editor, writer, advertising executive, and business theorist. The Thomas Dreier Reading Room at Peter H. Armacost Library, Eckerd College is named in his honor.
Thomas Dreier | |
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Born | Durand | May 5, 1884
Died | September 4, 1976 92) Saint Petersburg | (aged
Citizenship | American |
He was born in Durand, Wisconsin in 1884[2] and edited and published his own short-lived paper, The Menomonie Badger, in Menomonie in 1903 and 1904.[3] He subsequently moved to the Boston area. He built the Frank Chouteau Brown-designed "Snug Gables" in Winchester, Massachusetts, where he lived from 1920–1933, and later settled in New Hampshire on a 500-acre farm named "Sunny Meadows" in Melvin Village, Tuftonborough. In 1935 he and his first wife, Blanche Nowell Dreier, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida.[4] Blanche died in 1960 and in 1961 he married Mary Baker.[1]
He died on 4 September 1976 at his home in St. Petersburg.[1]
He was the first editor of the New Hampshire Troubadour magazine.[5]
Selected works
- Heroes of Insurgency (1910)
- The Story of Three Partners; United Shoe Machinery Company, Beverly, Mass. (1911)
- Silver Lining or Sunshine on the Business Trail (1922)
- Sunny Meadows (1933), concerning he and Blanche's life on their farm in New Hampshire[6]
- The Power of Print—and Men (1936), with William Addison Dwiggins
- Man Hunting, the Greatest Sport (1936)
- We Human Chemicals; or, The Knack of Getting Along With Everybody (1948)
References
- "Helped Found Friends of the Library, Thomas Dreier, 92". Evening Independent. 69 (264). St. Petersburg, Florida. September 6, 1976. p. 7-C. OCLC 2720408.
- Who's Who in Advertising, Detroit: Business Service Corporation, 1916, p. 21
- "About The Menomonie badger. (Menomonie, Wis.) 1903–1904". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
- "Thomas Dreier, Man and Legend". Evening Independent. 65 (162). St. Petersburg, Florida. May 10, 1972. p. 1-B. OCLC 2720408.
- "Carlson Shows Oils, Water Colors; Whitman Pencil Paintings Also at Public Library Now". Nashua Telegraph. 64 (235). Nashua, New Hampshire. December 7, 1932. p. 5. OCLC 22532489.
- Murdock, Kenneth B. (1934). "Sunny Meadows by Thomas Dreier; The White Hills: Mountain New Hampshire, Winnepesaukee to Washington by Cornelius Weygandt". The New England Quarterly. MIT Press. 7 (3): 583–585. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 359679.