STEELE, Charles R., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** CHARLES R. STEELE, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Steele is a planter living four miles south of Opelousas. He is one of a family of five children born to Peter Steele and Catherine Fresh. His father was a native of Sweden and his mother of Madison, Indiana. His father was for many years captain of an ocean steamer in the Atlantic. He subsequently ran a tow-boat line from New Orleans to the gulf for a number of years. He died in New Orleans in 1867. His wife still survives him. The subject of this sketch began life for himself at the age of eighteen years. He served a five years' apprenticeship, learning the trade of ship builder at New Orleans. In 1868 be was appointed Deputy U. S. Marshal. In this capacity he served for about fifteen years, when he was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, in which capacity he served four years, when he removed to the plantation on which he now resides. Mr. Steele has a plantation consisting of four hundred acres of land, the most of which is under cultivation and highly improved. He was married, in 1873, in Mobile, Alabama, to Miss Laura V. Jones, daughter of Dr. W. E. Jones, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. There has been born to them nine children: William, Charles, Frank, Vemelle (deceased), Charles Peter (deceased), Wharton, Alfred P., Laura V. and Charles Emmett. Mr. Steele is a member of the Episcopal and his wife of the Baptist church. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 79. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.