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Steele, Isaac Nevett – Steele, William R
Steele, Isaac Nevett
lawyer, was born April 25, 1809, in Cambridge, Md.
He received a thorough education in the public academy of Cambridge; St.
John's college of Annapolis, and at Trinity college of Hartford, Conn.
In 1830 he was admitted to the bar; and attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers in America, and a leader of the Maryland bar. He contributed valuable articles to current literature. He died April 11, 1891, in Baltimore, Md.
Steele, James
soldier, manufacturer, was born Jan. 16, 1765, in Lancaster county, Pa. He served in the war of 1812-14, and for meritorious conduct was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general of militia. He died Sept. 30, 1845, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Steele, Joel Dorman
educator, author, was born May 14, 1836, in Lima, N. Y. He was a prominent educator of Elmira, N. Y., who published Barnes's History of the United States and a series of text-books on the sciences, each intended for a course of study of fourteen weeks, including Natural Philosophy; Geology; Human Physiology; Zoölogy; and Chemistry. He died May 25, 1886, in Elmira, N. Y.
Steele, John
soldier, state senator, was born Aug. 15, 1758, in Lancaster county, Pa. In 1801 he was elected state senator, but, as he held a United States appointment, his seat was declared vacant. In 1804 he was elected state senator and in 1805 became speaker of that body.
He also held the rank of brigadier-general in the Pennsylvania militia.
Steele, John B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 28, 1814, in Delhi, N. Y. In 1841 he was appointed district attorney for Otsego county, N. Y.
In 1847 he moved to Kingston, and in 1850 he was elected special judge of that county. In 1860 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He was accidentally killed Sept. 24, 1866, in Kingston, N. Y.
Steele, John H
governor, was born in 1792 in North Carolina. He was governor of New Hampshire from 1844 to 1846. He died July 3, 1865, in Peterborough, N. H.
Steele, John N
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a presidential elector in 1832, and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1835 to 1837.
Steele, Thomas Sedgwick
author, was born in 1845 in Connecticut.
He is the author of Canoe and Camera: a Tour Through the Maine Forests; Paddle and Portage from Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook River; and A Voyage to Vikingland.
Steele, Walter Leak
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 18, 1823, in Steele's Mills (now Little's Mills), N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina state house of commons in 1846, 1848, 1850 and 1854, and to the state senate in 1852 and 1858. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat, and declined a renomination.
Steele, William G
merchant, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1820, in Somerset county, N. J. He was for several years a state director for the Delaware and Raritan canal, and the Camden and Amboy Railroad company.
He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress.
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.