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Streeter, Nelson R., was born in the town of Pitcher, Chenango county, October 7, 1838, a son of William and
Elizabeth Streeter, and the youngest but one of their thirteen children. Nelson was apprenticed to a shoemaker,
and in due time becoming a journeyman, but he worked most of his life either as a foreman or proprietor. His old
size stick, hammer and pincers are treasured remembrances of his early life and hang, gilded and elegantly framed,
in the parlor of their owner. When a child, Mr. Streeter's family and parents removed from Pitcher to Onondaga
county and there the greater part of his early life was passed. At the age of eight years, his parents being both
deceased, he was practically thrown upon his own resources, and his success in life has been due entirely to his
own efforts. In 1869 be came to this town, and was thereafter connected with various partners and firms in the
shoe business. While so engaged he invented an attachment to a last, a valuable appliance, but one which lost him
his accumulations to develop. In 1876 he engaged in the manufacture of novelties under the firm name of N. R Streeter
& Co., and though comparatively unknown outside this village, the firm is one of the largest business houses
in the county. The firm deals in useful and valuable novelties of all kinds, many of them being the invention of
Mr. Streeter himself; in fact he owns and controls no less than forty different patents. In the prosecutions of
his vast interests Mr. Streeter has traveled extensively and has cultivated a wide acquaintance with traveling
and business men, being particularly interested in the commercial traveler or "drummer," and possessing
literary tastes, he has compiled a book of choice poems many of which are in circulation under the head of "Gems
from an Old Drummer's Grip." In village affairs our subject also takes a deep interest, being a temperance
man and a Republican. He has served on the Board of Trustees and also on the Board of Education. In 1860 he married
Adelia Randolph of Chenango county, and they have four children.
From:
Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York
Including a History of Cornell University
Edited by: John H. Selkreg
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1894
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