This maker operated 1874 through to about 1901, making a variety of machinery. His various tub and pail machines put them in competition with two other Winchendon businesses: Goodspeed & Wyman, and Baxter D. Whitney & Son.

Information Sources

• Inland Massachusetts Illustrated by Elstner Publishing Co., 1891, has the following writeup.

  Manufacturer of Improved Woodworking Machinery—Front Street, Winchendon, MA,

  Mr. Alvin Streeter ranks with the most successful and famous inventors, improvers and constructors of woodworking machinery, and his product in one form or another is found working satisfactorily in nearly every prominent planing mill, carriage, sash, blind, door and wooden-ware factory in America. Mr. Streeter has had long experience in this branch of manufacturing, and for some years was at the head of a similar concern at Marlboro, removing to and establishing himself in Winchendon in 1874. Here he occupies one floor, 25 x 45 feet, fronting on Front street, employs eight skilled mechanics and a splendid equipment of modern iron and steel-working machinery, and manufactures a choice line of woodworking devices, designed or improved to the point of perfection by himself, embracing machinery for the use of manufacturers of butter tubs, fish kits, pail handles, clothes-pins, wood spoons, oval and nest boxes, wooden measures, etc., his leading specialties comprising improved cylinder planers, upright horizontal boring machines, clothes-pin and pail-handle lathes (the latter provided with improved twist bits for boring pail-handles, spool-blocks, and for similar work). Mr. Streeter, a native of Fitzwilliam, N. H., is a practical machinist and works at the bench daily besides managing a large and growing business.

• Correspondent Ben Campbell reports that Mr. Streeter operated in the last quarter of the 19th century, and made a variety of machinery. Ben reports seeing several Streeter planers and an iron-frame horizontal boring machine.
• 1889 ad from The Wood-Worker. "Pail, tub and chair machinery, automatic pail handle and clothespin machinery. Cylinder stave saws, planers, single or double surfacers, and measure machinery."
• Listed in the 1891 book, Inland Massachusetts Illustrated. This book provides the founding date, location, and size information. It also mentions that Streeter was a native of Fitzwilliam, NH.
• 1898 ad from The Wood-Worker, identical to the 1889 ad.
• Ad from January 1901 The Wood-Worker. Again, it is identical to the 1889 ad.