BERT W. STEINERT
History of Arizona, page 579

Bert W. Steinert who holds the responsible position of manager 
of the City Gas Company at Winslow has had wide and varied 
experience in practical affairs and is performing the duties 
of his present position in a very capable manner. He was born 
in San Antonio, Texas on October 1, 1886 and is the youngest 
of the ten children who were born to Carl and Ernestine (Lauris) 
Steinert. His father, who was a contractor during his entire 
active career, died in 1922.

Mr. Steinert attended the public schools of his native city, 
graduating from high school, after which he spent two years 
in a military academy.  He then went to work as a machinist 
and airbrake worker on the Galveston, Houston and San Antonio 
Railroad, which job he held for thirteen years, after which 
he was for six months with the Texas Pacific Railroad at 
Fort Worth and at Alamogordo, New Mexico, four months. Going 
then to Los Angeles, he was with the Southern Pacific Railroad 
for six months, being then transferred to Point Richmond, 
northern California where he remained one and a half years.  
Going then to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad he 
went to Houston Texas but later entered the employ of the 
Southern Pacific for which road he came to Winslow in 1912.  
Later he went to work for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 
road as foreman of the airbrake department, in which capacity 
he served until 1922 when he accepted his present position as 
manger of the City Gas Company.

On November 21, 1921 he married Margaret Day and they are the 
parents of two children, Bert W. and Harriet Louise.


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