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.