Tipton-Jefferson-Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Steele, H. N. 1832 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

    H. N. STEELE is a native of Jefferson County, Ind., and was born June 27,
1832. He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Porter) Steele, natives of Kentucky,
and of Irish descent. Mr. H. N. Steele, at the age of eighteen, left the
parental roof, and apprenticed himself four and a half years to a carpenter in
Indianapolis, receiving $5 per month, and eighteen months' schooling. He then
worked at journeyman work one year, after which he worked at his trade as
foreman in Indianapolis four-years. He then removed to Hamilton County, and a
few years later located in Howard County, where he engaged in farming and
working at his trade until 1876, when he removed to Windfall and operated a
planing mill two years. He then sold out and engaged in the furniture and
undertaking business, where he is doing a good business of $2,000 per year. Mr.
Steele is a Democrat in politics, and has held a number of minor offices of the
township. He was married, January 8, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Duke, of
Indianapolis. She is the daughter of James Duke, one of the pioneers of Marion
County. This union has been blessed with eight children, four of whom are
living-Edgar, Ida, H. E. and Nettie. Mr. Steele is a prominent business man, and
a member of the I. O. O. F.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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