Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Steck, Daniel F. 1881 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

DANIEL F. STECK.
Daniel F. Steck, junior member of the firm of Steck & Steck, well known
attorneys of Ottumwa, is one of the younger members of the bar who has won well
deserved success. He has practiced in association with his father for the past
eight years and is now serving his second term as county attorney.

His birth occurred in Ottumwa, this county, on the 16th of December, 1881, his
parents being A. C. and Ada (Washburn) Steck. The father was born September 12,
1852, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, a son of .Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F.
Steck, who were of good old Pennsylvania stock. A. C. Steck acquired his early
education in the common schools, later pursued a course in the local academy and
in 1872 was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor. He read law under the preceptorship of United States Senator Cowan,
one of the most eminent of Pennsylvania lawyers. He was deputy in each one of
the offices at the Westmoreland county courthouse and was held in high favor by
all the old residents. Mr. Steck was admitted to practice in the various courts
of the county and came to Iowa in 1875, opening an office in Ottumwa. His
progress was rapid and well deserved. He was elected county attorney in 1886 and
reelected two years later, in one of these election contests carrying every
township in the county and nearly every voting precinct. In 1900 he was
nominated for congress on the democratic ticket against his protest, and ran
about fourteen hundred votes ahead of his party ticket. In this contest he was
pitted against Hon. John F. Lacey, a man of national reputation. In 1878, A. C.
Steck was married to Ada Washburn, her father being Erastus Washburn, at one
time county auditor and an old settler held in high repute by everyone. By this
union there are two children: Mrs. Alice Moss; and Daniel F., of this review,
who was named for his grandfather. The father has been a resident of Ottumwa for
thirty-nine years; during that time he was for three years general counselor for
the Colorado Coal & Iron Company, with headquarters at Pueblo. For a number of
years he was the senior member of the legal firm of Steck & Smith, the latter
being the Hon. J. J. Smith, state senator from Wapello county for four years and
one of the leading lawyers of southern Iowa.

After completing his high-school course Daniel F. Steck entered the State
University of Iowa at Iowa City, from which institution he was graduated with
the class of 1906. In that year he began the practice of law in association with
his father, the firm style of Steck & Steck being adopted. The relation has been
maintained to the present time with mutual pleasure and profit. The zeal with
which they have devoted their energies to the profession, the careful regard
evinced for the interests of their clients and an assiduous and unrelaxing
attention to all the details of their cases, have brought them a large business
and made them very successful in its conduct.

In 1908 Mr. Steck was united in marriage to Miss Lucile Oehler, of Iowa City, a
daughter of A. M. Oehler. She also enjoyed the advantages of a college
education. Mr. Steck gives his political allegiance to the democracy and is now
serving for the second term in the office of county attorney, making a highly
creditable and commendable record in that connection. He is a popular member of
the Wapello Country Club, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist
Episcopal church, to which his wife also belongs. In both professional and
social circles of his native county he has won an enviable reputation.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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