Tuscola-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Streeter, William D. 1841 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

WILLIAM D. STREETER is a resident of the village of Akron where he is engaged in
the drug business. He is a son of Elias and Phila (Harmon) Streeter, both
natives of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., where the subject of this sketch was also
born March 26, 1841. The following year his parents came to Oakland County,
Mich., and here took up Government land in Brandon Township, Oakland County. The
education granted to this youth was very limited as schools were neither
numerous nor well established in this section of Michigan. He remained with his
father until he was nineteen years of age after which he undertook independent
work. 

  This young man contracted a matrimonial alliance with Charlotte, daughter of
Sydney Hovey, a New Yorker, and to them have been born four children. The eldest
daughter, Mary, has married Edgar Merry and resides in Akron Township with her
husband and two sons. Phila married William H. Cook, a merchant and at present
Postmaster of Akron. Recine and Louis are the two youngest who are at home with
their parents. 
  For some fifteen years after his marriage Mr. Streeter carried on farming and
then began the business of hotel keeping, following this calling at Akron,
Unionville and  Fair Grove. He bought out a stock of drugs of Frank Bosworth, in
Akron, taking charge in September, 1890, and is now doing a profitable business
in this line, carrying a general stock of notions, drugs, etc. In politics he is
a Democrat and takes an active interest in the success of his party. He is at
present Constable of Akron Township, and is a member of Tent No. 178, K. O. T.
M. His father and mother are living and have both passed the milestone of
three-score and ten, yet are active and capable with their mental facilities
unabated.

  There were seven children in the family in which our subject grew to maturity
and they are all still living. His brother Jasper, resides in Huron County,
Mich., and Simeon lives in Unionville; Jane married George Smith and makes her
home in Bay County; Hiram resides in this county, and Mary, who married John
Tuttle, lives in Huron County, while Ransom makes his home in Tuscola County.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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