Samuel Steel and Nancy J. McGee

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Husband Samuel Steel ¹

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           Born: 14 Jul 1834 - Indiana Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Steel (1793-1857) 2
         Mother: Experience Hill (      -      ) 2 3

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       Marriage: 1867 2

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Wife Nancy J. McGee ²

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         Father: William McGhee (      -1861) 4
         Mother: Rachel Cathers (      -1875) 5 6

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Children

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1 M George Steel ²

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2 F Minnie J. Steel ²

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3 F Sarah M. Steel ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] Hilderbrand (      -      ) 2

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4 M William Steel ²

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5 M John Steel ²

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6 M Samuel Steel ²

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7 M Joseph G. Steel ²

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8 M Loren A. Steel ²

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9 M Charles B. Steel ²

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Steel

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He was reared on his father's farm, and attended the common schools near his home. On coming to Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, in 1858, he located in Brookville, where he was living when the Civil war broke out. He then offered his services to the government, enlisting in 1861, at Brookville, in Capt. E. R. Brady's company, Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves. The regiment, which was commanded by Col. Thomas Gallager, was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and during its three-years' service participated in many important battles. Mr. Steel was never wounded, but on May 5, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness, he was taken prisoner with eighty-two others, including Gov. Edward Scofield, of Wisconsin, and was transferred to Gordon, Lynchburg and Danville consecutively. Later he was incarcerated in Andersonville prison, and still later taken to Florence, South Carolina, where he remained until February, 1865, when he was transferred to Wilmington, North Carolina. During the siege at that place he was removed to Goldsboro, in the same state, and a week later returned to the Federal lines twelve miles from Wilmington, Gen. Scofield then being in command at that place. By boat he went to Annapolis, where he landed March 4, 1865, and after recuperating was returned to Pittsburgh, where he was honorably discharged and paid off on the 16th of that month.
Returning to Brookville, Mr. Steel engaged in lumbering, after his marriage locating on a farm, but continued to follow lumbering in connection with agriculture. At the end of sixteen years he disposed of his farm and removed to DuBois, Pennsylvania, where he made his home until moving to Sandy Valley in 1888. He purchased a property there, and for a short time operated a planing-mill, but subsequently bought a store, which he stocked with a choice assortment of general merchandise, and carried on business there, receiving from the public a liberal patronage. From July, 1893, he served four years as postmaster of the place. In his political affiliations, Mr. Steel was a Democrat; socially, he was identified with the Veteran Legion.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1155.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1156.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 776.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1091.

5 Kate M. Scott, History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 724.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1091, 1156.