This is a transcription of the Frances (Stewart) Mosher biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 181.
Lilian (Carpenter) Streeter
IN the choice of Lilian Carpenter Streeter as its first president, the New Hampshire Federation of Women’s Clubs acted wisely and well. An accomplished and thoroughly womanly woman, she is a fit leader of the movement, which, involving no aggressive campaign for further rights and privileges for her sex, contemplates the best and highest development of woman’s powers in every legitimate direction. A native of the town of Bath, daughter of Associate Justice Alonzo P. Carpenter of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and Julia Goodall, a descendant of one of the most noted families of Northern New Hampshire, she has been a resident of Concord since her marriage, in 1877, with Mr. Frank Sherwin Streeter, now a leading member of the New Hampshire bar. During all these years, while faithful to every requirement and situation of an exceptionally happy home life, every worthy social, educational, and philanthropic movement brought to her attention has commanded her earnest sympathy and active support. As the prime mover and organizer of the Concord Ramabai Circle, as a trustee of the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital, as leader of an earnest band of “King’s Daughters,” as a devoted member and teacher of the Unitarian Sunday-school, and as founder and the first president of the Concord Woman’s Club, she has given true, devoted, and unselfish service in every relation, at the same time fulfilling every demand of the social life of the capital city, of which she is one of the brightest ornaments. A leader in the Woman’s Club movement, Mrs. Streeter was also the first New Hampshire woman to labor for the cause of federation, and was state chairman of correspondence for New Hampshire with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs for two years. She was appointed by Governor Busiel, in 1895, a member of the New Hampshire Commission to the Atlanta exposition. Mrs. Streeter is the mother of two children, Julia and Thomas Winthrop, the former now a student at Bryn Mawr.