Thomas Dreier
American writer and advertising executive (1884–1976)
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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 | May 5, 1884 Durand, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | September 4, 1976 (aged 92) |
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 to 1933, and later settled in New Hampshire on a 500-acre (200 ha) farm named "Sunny Meadows" in Melvin Village, Tuftonborough.
In 1935 he and his first wife, Blanche Nowell Dreier, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida.[4] In Florida Thomas served as chairman of the State Library Board and was a leader in rebuilding the St. Petersburg Public Library.[5] Blanche died in 1960 and in 1961 he married Mary Baker.[1]
He died on September 4, 1976 at his home in St. Petersburg.[1]
He was the first editor of the New Hampshire Troubadour magazine.[6]
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[7]
- 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)
