Joseph J. Hindson
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
USGENWEB Montana Archives
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Steele, Hindson & Company, Helena Montana
This firm was organized and incorporated in its present form 
in 1892, William Steele being president, and Joseph J. 
Hindson, secretary and treasurer. They are jobbers of 
hay, grain, flour and feed and storage commission merchants, 
located at No. 1332 Bozeman Street, near the Northern 
Pacific Depot.

William Steele, president of the above named company, is 
a native of New York City, born in 1849. Grandfather 
Steele, a Scotchman by birth, emigrated to America and 
settled in Baltimore, Maryland in 1800, later he resided 
in Brooklyn, New York where he was an importer of Irish 
linen. His wife, Ann Vaughn, was a daughter of Lt. Vaughn 
of the Revolution. 

Their son William Steele was born in New York in 1812, 
married Anna Ostrom, a native of Brooklyn, and a 
descendant of an old Colonial family, her maternal 
grandfather, John Faulkner also having been a patriot 
soldier in the Revolution. 

William Steele was a wholesale dry goods merchant in 
New York. He died in Philadelphia in 1887 in the 
seventy-fifth year of his age and his wife died in 
1870. They had six children, the subject of our 
sketch being the third son and the fourth child.

Mr. Steele received his education in New York City 
and was employed as a bookkeeper there until 1880. 
That year he came to Helena and accepted a position 
as a bookkeeper for Gans and Klein with whom he 
remained for ten years. In 1890 he severed his 
connection with that firm in order to engaged in 
his present business in which he has met with signal success. 

He was married in 1882 to Adelaide Bailey, a native of 
Allegan, Michigan and daughter of Jacob Bailey of that 
state. They have one daughter, Anna.

Joseph J. Hindson, secretary and treasurer of the company 
was born in Liverpool, England in 1850, a son of one of 
Liverpool's wholesale grain merchants. Joseph J. 
assisted his father and early in life became thoroughly 
informed in regard to every detail of the grain 
business. In 1874 he emigrated to America and in 
Canada accepted a position as bookkeeper for the 
well known firm of Sanford and Evans with whom he 
remained for twelve years. He left in 1891 to 
engaged with the firm out of which grew the firm 
of Steele, Hindson and Company.

Mr. Hindson was married in 1875 to Amelia Bamford, a 
native of England and a descendant of the English 
family of Bamfords. They have three children: Isabelle, 
Mary H and Joseph.

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