Ralph Wallace Steele and Jennie Schwartz

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Husband Ralph Wallace Steele ¹

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           Born: 1 Oct 1868 - Mahoning, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: Capt. Joseph A. Steele (1843-1893) 2 3
         Mother: Evaline Wallace (1847/1848-Aft 1913) 1 3

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       Marriage: 20 Jun 1893 1

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Wife Jennie Schwartz ¹

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           Born:  - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: John W. Schwartz (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Rebecca [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Hazel Eveline Steele ¹

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           Born: 17 May 1894 1
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General Notes: Husband - Ralph Wallace Steele

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He was born in Mahoning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He removed with his parents from place to place and received his early education in the public schools of Parker, Bradford and Warren, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the high school he became a gauger in the oil fields, remaining in that work for seven years. He then removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and organized the Steele Furniture Company and entered the retail furniture business, in which he remained for twelve years. He then operated a woolen mill in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, for two years, and finally, in 1906, he settled in East Brady, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and established the East Brady Woolen Company of which he became the largest stockholder, and of which he was also secretary and treasurer. It was one of the leading industries of East Brady and employed regularly from sixty to sixty-five skilled operatives, manufacturing the highest grade of wool blankets and knitting-yarns, and the product of the mills found a ready market in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, and nearly all of the large cities in the United States. Mr. Steele was also the president and one of the directors of the Valley Yarn & Woolen Company in East Brady. He was a Republican in politics. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Blue Lodge, Duquesne Chapter, No. 546, Royal Arch Masons, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is also a member of Syria Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in Pittsburgh.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1025.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1024.

3 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 30.