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Steel, George Alexander

business man, legislator, was born April 22, 1846, in Stafford, Ohio. He is the son of William Steel, a prominent abolitionist of Ohio, and cousin of Hon. William E.

Gladstone. On April 2, 1863, he started for Portland, Ore., going by the way of New York, Aspinwall, Panama and San Francisco, arriving there on May 25, 1864.

He has been county treasurer, state senator, postmaster of Portland for two terms, special agent of the postoffice department, and has filled various other offices of trust. He is widely and favorably known throughout Oregon; is largely interested in street railways in Portland and vicinity, and is now president and superintendent of the East Side Railway company, one of the longest and most successful electric railways in the United States.