Rev Dr William C Steele entered into rest August 5th 1906. Funeral services at New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of New York Avenue and Dean Street, Brooklyn Wednesday August 8th at 2:30pm.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery. (Washington DC and Albany newspapers please copy).
The Rev Dr William C Steele, a retired Methodist Minister who had been a member of the New York East Conference for nearly 40 years, died Sunday at this home, 455 Halsey Street Brooklyn, in his seventy-ninth year. He was a native of Virginia but during the Civil War was an ardent Unionist and raised several volunteer companies. He was a personal friend of General Grant, Secretary Seward, Gen O O Howard, Roscoe Conkling, Alonzo B Cornell, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Clay, Edward Everett Hale, Canon Farrar, Charles Spurgeon, Bishop Horatio Bonar; and other noted men of the war period. The death of the aged minister resulted from gangrene poisoning, following the amputation of a leg at the Seney Hospital. He had long been an invalid after falling down stairs while carrying aid to a needy family. Dr Steele still did many charitable work among the parishioners he still considered his own. In trying to climb to the top of a tenement last Friday Dr Steele stumbled on the stairs falling and breaking his leg. The leg had to be amputated and the aged minister did not recover from the shock of the operation.
For 13 years he was chaplain at Randall's Island. His character was singularly gentle and in all his churches he was known as the "children's friend". Dr Steele was a "minister" in the largest sense of the word.
Dr Steele was born in Shenandoah Valley, Rockingham County, Virginia in 1827 and educated in Baltimore & Washington DC. He numbered among his relatives - Governor Barbour of Virginia; the late Thomas B Bryan of Chicago, vice president of the world's fair; Charles Page Bryan, present Minister to Portugal; and the late Judge Andrew Wylie of the Supreme Court.
There is mention of a daughter, Miss J Steele who was engaged in May of 1901 to Howard E Schoonmaker of Manhattan. (NY Tribune May 05,1901 Pg 6 Image 20)
He is the brother of Martha A E Steele Ferguson who is married to the prominent lawyer Benjamin W Ferguson.
~courtesy of G M
Son of David and Nancy Bryan Steele of Hagerstown Maryland.
Brother of Martha, John, Bryan, Levi, Emma, Phillip and Charles.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery. (Washington DC and Albany newspapers please copy).
The Rev Dr William C Steele, a retired Methodist Minister who had been a member of the New York East Conference for nearly 40 years, died Sunday at this home, 455 Halsey Street Brooklyn, in his seventy-ninth year. He was a native of Virginia but during the Civil War was an ardent Unionist and raised several volunteer companies. He was a personal friend of General Grant, Secretary Seward, Gen O O Howard, Roscoe Conkling, Alonzo B Cornell, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Clay, Edward Everett Hale, Canon Farrar, Charles Spurgeon, Bishop Horatio Bonar; and other noted men of the war period. The death of the aged minister resulted from gangrene poisoning, following the amputation of a leg at the Seney Hospital. He had long been an invalid after falling down stairs while carrying aid to a needy family. Dr Steele still did many charitable work among the parishioners he still considered his own. In trying to climb to the top of a tenement last Friday Dr Steele stumbled on the stairs falling and breaking his leg. The leg had to be amputated and the aged minister did not recover from the shock of the operation.
For 13 years he was chaplain at Randall's Island. His character was singularly gentle and in all his churches he was known as the "children's friend". Dr Steele was a "minister" in the largest sense of the word.
Dr Steele was born in Shenandoah Valley, Rockingham County, Virginia in 1827 and educated in Baltimore & Washington DC. He numbered among his relatives - Governor Barbour of Virginia; the late Thomas B Bryan of Chicago, vice president of the world's fair; Charles Page Bryan, present Minister to Portugal; and the late Judge Andrew Wylie of the Supreme Court.
There is mention of a daughter, Miss J Steele who was engaged in May of 1901 to Howard E Schoonmaker of Manhattan. (NY Tribune May 05,1901 Pg 6 Image 20)
He is the brother of Martha A E Steele Ferguson who is married to the prominent lawyer Benjamin W Ferguson.
~courtesy of G M
Son of David and Nancy Bryan Steele of Hagerstown Maryland.
Brother of Martha, John, Bryan, Levi, Emma, Phillip and Charles.
Rev Dr William C Steele entered into rest August 5th 1906. Funeral services at New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of New York Avenue and Dean Street, Brooklyn Wednesday August 8th at 2:30pm.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery. (Washington DC and Albany newspapers please copy).
The Rev Dr William C Steele, a retired Methodist Minister who had been a member of the New York East Conference for nearly 40 years, died Sunday at this home, 455 Halsey Street Brooklyn, in his seventy-ninth year. He was a native of Virginia but during the Civil War was an ardent Unionist and raised several volunteer companies. He was a personal friend of General Grant, Secretary Seward, Gen O O Howard, Roscoe Conkling, Alonzo B Cornell, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Clay, Edward Everett Hale, Canon Farrar, Charles Spurgeon, Bishop Horatio Bonar; and other noted men of the war period. The death of the aged minister resulted from gangrene poisoning, following the amputation of a leg at the Seney Hospital. He had long been an invalid after falling down stairs while carrying aid to a needy family. Dr Steele still did many charitable work among the parishioners he still considered his own. In trying to climb to the top of a tenement last Friday Dr Steele stumbled on the stairs falling and breaking his leg. The leg had to be amputated and the aged minister did not recover from the shock of the operation.
For 13 years he was chaplain at Randall's Island. His character was singularly gentle and in all his churches he was known as the "children's friend". Dr Steele was a "minister" in the largest sense of the word.
Dr Steele was born in Shenandoah Valley, Rockingham County, Virginia in 1827 and educated in Baltimore & Washington DC. He numbered among his relatives - Governor Barbour of Virginia; the late Thomas B Bryan of Chicago, vice president of the world's fair; Charles Page Bryan, present Minister to Portugal; and the late Judge Andrew Wylie of the Supreme Court.
There is mention of a daughter, Miss J Steele who was engaged in May of 1901 to Howard E Schoonmaker of Manhattan. (NY Tribune May 05,1901 Pg 6 Image 20)
He is the brother of Martha A E Steele Ferguson who is married to the prominent lawyer Benjamin W Ferguson.
~courtesy of G M
Son of David and Nancy Bryan Steele of Hagerstown Maryland.
Brother of Martha, John, Bryan, Levi, Emma, Phillip and Charles.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery. (Washington DC and Albany newspapers please copy).
The Rev Dr William C Steele, a retired Methodist Minister who had been a member of the New York East Conference for nearly 40 years, died Sunday at this home, 455 Halsey Street Brooklyn, in his seventy-ninth year. He was a native of Virginia but during the Civil War was an ardent Unionist and raised several volunteer companies. He was a personal friend of General Grant, Secretary Seward, Gen O O Howard, Roscoe Conkling, Alonzo B Cornell, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Clay, Edward Everett Hale, Canon Farrar, Charles Spurgeon, Bishop Horatio Bonar; and other noted men of the war period. The death of the aged minister resulted from gangrene poisoning, following the amputation of a leg at the Seney Hospital. He had long been an invalid after falling down stairs while carrying aid to a needy family. Dr Steele still did many charitable work among the parishioners he still considered his own. In trying to climb to the top of a tenement last Friday Dr Steele stumbled on the stairs falling and breaking his leg. The leg had to be amputated and the aged minister did not recover from the shock of the operation.
For 13 years he was chaplain at Randall's Island. His character was singularly gentle and in all his churches he was known as the "children's friend". Dr Steele was a "minister" in the largest sense of the word.
Dr Steele was born in Shenandoah Valley, Rockingham County, Virginia in 1827 and educated in Baltimore & Washington DC. He numbered among his relatives - Governor Barbour of Virginia; the late Thomas B Bryan of Chicago, vice president of the world's fair; Charles Page Bryan, present Minister to Portugal; and the late Judge Andrew Wylie of the Supreme Court.
There is mention of a daughter, Miss J Steele who was engaged in May of 1901 to Howard E Schoonmaker of Manhattan. (NY Tribune May 05,1901 Pg 6 Image 20)
He is the brother of Martha A E Steele Ferguson who is married to the prominent lawyer Benjamin W Ferguson.
~courtesy of G M
Son of David and Nancy Bryan Steele of Hagerstown Maryland.
Brother of Martha, John, Bryan, Levi, Emma, Phillip and Charles.
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