Home › S › Steenstra, Peter Henry

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.