Steele, William R – Stephens, Harriet Marion
Steele, William R
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 24, 1824, in New York city. He was elected to the legislative council of Wyoming territory in 1871, was elected to the forty-third congress as the delegate from the territory of Wyoming, and was re-elected to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Steendam, Jacob
poet, was born in 1616 in Holland. He is the earliest poet of New York. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India company, and lived in New Amsterdam, now New York, from 1650 to 1663, about which time he returned to Holland. The place and date of his death are unknown. His four small volumes of verse include: The Thistle Finch; The Complaint of New Amsterdam; The Praise of New Netherland; and Spurring Verses.
Steenerson, Halvor
lawyer, legislator, was born June 30, 1852, in Dane county, Wis. He is a successful lawyer of Crookston, Minn.; has been county attorney; city attorney and a member of the board of education. He served with distinction as a state senator in the Minnesota legislature.
Steenrod, Lewis
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, serving from 1839 to 1845.
Steenstra, Peter Henry
clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 24, 1833, in Netherlands. He is an episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, Mass., and professor of Old Testament criticism and interpretation in the Episcopal Theological school from 1867. He is the author of The Being of God as Unity and Trinity.
Steere, Warren Burlingham
physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 9, 1832, in Otsego county, N. Y. He received his education in the public schools; attended the medical department of the Michigan university; the Eclectic Medical college of Philadelphia, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa. For fourteen years he was United States examining surgeon; was professor of obstetrics in the medical department of the Drake university, and for six years was professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Iowa Eclectic Medical college. He is one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of Iowa at Des Moines.
Steiger, Ernst
bibliographer, publisher, author, was born in 1832 in Saxony. He is a bibliographer and publisher of New York city, and the author of Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copyright Law in den Vereinigten Staaten; and Periodical Literature, a bibliography.
Steinbach, John A
soldier, contractor, was born Jan. 28, 1847, in Bethel, Mo. He served as a soldier in the civil war and was promoted to first lieutenant United States volunteers. He is a successful contractor and business man, and has been mayor of Quincy, Ill.
Steiner, Lewis H
physician, educator, author, was born May 4, 1827, in Frederick, Md. He was chief inspector in the army of the Potomac, of United States sanitary commission; and was the state senator for twelve years from Frederick county, Md. He was the first librarian of the Enoch Pratt free library of Baltimore, and is the author of a number of scientific and religious works.
Steinway, Albert
was born June 10, 1840, in Germany. Early in the civil war he was advanced to the colonelcy of the sixth regiment of New York volunteers, and later became brigadier-general. He died May 14, 1877, in New York city.
Steinway, C. F. Theodore
piano manufacturer, was born Nov. 6, 1825, in Germany. He came to America in 1849 with his father, Henry E. Steinway, and was associated with his father in the great manufacturing house of Steinway and Sons, until his death.
Steinway, Henry Engelhard
founder of the great piano manufacturing house of Steinway and Sons, was born Feb. 15, 1797, in North Germany. He came to America in 1849, and in 1853 founded the house of Steinway and Sons in New York city. They also own large warerooms, and in 1866 built Steinway Hall. He died Feb. 7, 1871, in New York city.
Steinway, William
piano manufacturer, and president of Steinway and Sons, was born March 5, 1836, near the city of Brunswick, Germany. In 1853 he joined his father and his brothers in the founding of the house of Steinway and Sons. With four or five workmen, the Steinways built one square piano a week, and to-day they own and operate the largest piano factory in the world, having manufactured over one hundred thousand pianos since they first entered the business in America. William Steinway has taken an active part in the public affairs of New York city; was a democratic elector in 1892; and the following year was unanimously elected president of the electoral college. As rapid transit commissioner of the city of New York he became very popular.
Stellhorn, Frederick William
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1841 in Germany. He is a lutheran clergyman of Ohio, professor of theology in Capitol university, and has published a Lexicon of New Testament Greek; Annotations on the Acts of the Apostles; and Annotations on the Gospels.
Stembel, Roger Nelson
naval officer, was born Dec. 27, 1810, in Middletown, Md. He co-operated with the army in suppressing the rising of the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1836; and did brilliant service in the Mexican war of 1846. In the civil war he was instrumental in organizing the union gunboat flotilla on the western waters, and was in command of the gunboat Lexington at the battle of Belmont. He assisted in the capture of Fort Henry, commanding the gunboat Cincinnati, where he had the honor of receiving the surrender of the fort, and of hoisting Old Glory for the first time over southern territory. He was in command of the same gunboat during the protracted bombardment and final capture of island No. 10 on the Mississippi river, and while still in command of the Cincinnati he was seriously and almost mortally wounded by a rifle ball passing through his throat during the bombardment of Fort Pillow. This wound invalided him for nearly two years, when he again was connected with the western gunboat flotilla until the close of the war.
He is now on the retired list as rear-admiral United States navy.
Stenger, William S
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1840, in London, Pa. He served as district attorney for Franklin county, Pa., and in 1874 was elected a representative: from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected to the fortyfifth congress as a democrat.
Stephen, Adam
soldier, was born about 1730 in Virginia. He was made a brigadier-general in 1776, and in 1777 was. promoted major-general.
Stephen, Mrs. Elizabeth
(WILL- ISON), author, was born in 1856 in Alabama. She is the wife of a presbyterian clergyman in Rockport, Ill., and the author of The Confessions of Two, a novel..
Stephen, Harlan E
poet. He is a successful writer of Iowa, and the author of a number of meritorious poems. He has taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state, and has. filled a number of local offices in Glenwood.
Stephens, Abraham P
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.
Stephens, Alexander Hamil- Ton
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Feb. 11, 1812, in Crawfordsville, Ga. In 1836 he was elected to the lower house of the Georgia state: legislature, where he served five years; and in 1842 was elected to the senate of his state. In 1843 he was elected a representative in congress from Georgia, to which position he was regularly re-elected to the close of the thirty-fifth congress.
He became identified with the rebellion of 1861, and was chosen vice-president and member of congress of the so-called southern confederacy. In 1866 he was elected a senator in congress, but was not admitted, and was subsequently elected a representative to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. In 1882 he was elected governor of Georgia. He was the author of School History of the United States; History of the War Between the States; and Compendium of United States History. He died March 4, 1883, in Atlanta, Ga.
Stephens, Alice Barker
artist, was born in 1858, in New Jersey. For many years she was engaged in wood: engraving and as an illustrator for Har-- per's, Century and other leading maga-- zines. For three years she taught portrait and life classes in the Philadelphia. School of Design for Women.
Stephens, Mrs. Ann Sophia
(WINTERBOTHAM), author, poet, was born in 1813 in Derby, Conn. She was a. novelist of New York city whose books. were at one time much read. Among them are, Fashion and Famine, her best. work; A Story of Western Life; The Old.
Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption; The Heiress; Wives and Widows; The Curse of Gold; and A Popular History of the United States. She wrote not a little verse, her best known poem being the familiar Polish Boy. She died Aug. 20, 1886, in Newport, R. I.
Stephens, Harriet Marion
author, was born in 1823. She was the author of Home Scenes and Home Sounds; and Hagar the Martyr, a novel. She died in 1858 in East Hampden, Maine.