Biography: Albert C. Steere, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000
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Albert C. Steere, a native son of Shreveport, is vice president and manager of the A. C. Steere Company, Incorporated, an organization 
that has handled from the construction to the practical realization the magnificent suburban and community developments known as South
Highland and Broadmoor, among the most artistic home and social communities in the South.Mr. Steere was born at Shreveport in 1879, and
is a son of Cyrus S. and Johnette (Stevens) Steere.  Cyrus S. Steere, a man of prominence in Shreveport for many years, having located
there in 1873, was born in New York State and is a descendant of John Steere, who came from Ockley, Surrey County, England, to
Providence, Rhode Island, in early Colonial times, attaining a grant of land from the King of England.  Cyrus S. Steere is the president 
of the A. C. Steere Company, Inc., but is not active, the management and executive affairs devolving upon his son. Albert C. Steere acquired 
a liberal education, and in his early manhood spent a few years in Southern California, where he made a particular study of modern home
architecture and the building up of modern residential communities.  It was his ambition to contribute something substantial of this nature
to his native city.  The result is that South Highland, a suburb of Shreveport, is pronounced by all judges on community development to be
one of the most beautiful residential communities in the South.  Mr. Steere and his company have expended millions of dollars on the project,
and the individual home owners, many of them among the wealthiest citizens of the South, have likewise put in very large amounts of money
in the building of their homes and the improvement of the surrounding grounds.  The town has a beautiful park, Bettie-Virginia Park, which was
contributed largely through the generosity of Mr. Steere.  Other features are the splendid paved streets, modern water and sewerage systems,
artistic and expensive homes, spacious grounds, and beautiful landscaping effects.Mr. Steere himself owns a tine home on Oakley Drive.
He married Miss Virginia Collins, and they have a daughter, Virginia. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 147, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.