STEEDMAN. 540 STEELE. County, Pa. In 1837 he settled in Ohio, where he became interested in the Wabash and Erie Canal. In 185G-C0 he was printer to Congress. He led the Fourth Ohio Volunteers at the battle of Pliilippi, was promoted to the rank of briga- dier-general, and at the battle of Perryville brought his troops on tlie field just in time to fill a dangerous gap in the Federal battle line. At Chickamauga he led the vanguard of Gran- ger's reserve corps to Thomas's aid on the after- noon of the second day. He served under Gen- eral Sherman during the Atlanta campaign and then rejoined Thomas at Nashville, where he was given command of a provisional division of negro troops, with which on December 15, 18G4. he opened the battle of Nashville. He resigned from the service in 1866 with the rank of major-gen- eral of volunteers. During President Johnson's administration he was collector of internal rev- enue at New Orleans, and in 1879 he was elected to the Ohio State Senate. STEEL. See Ibon and Steel. STEEL, Flora Annie (Yebsteb) (1847—). An English novelist, born at Harrow. In 1867 she married a Bengal civilian and went to India, where she lived till 1889. She was for some time inspectress for the Government and aided schools in the Punjab. Miile in India she publislied, in conjunction with Lieut. -Col. Eichard Temple, a collection of Punjab folk-tales, under the title ^ride-Au■ul■e .^lories (1884). After her return to England she began a scries of novels and short stories illustrative of native and Anglo- Indian life. Among them are: Miss Stuart's Legacy (1893) ; Tales from the Punjab (1894) ; Flower of Forgiveness (1894) ; On the Face of the Waters (1896) ; Voices in the Xight (1900) ; The Hosts of the Lord ( 1900) ; and /» the Guard- ianship of God (1903). STEEL, Sir John (1804-91). A Scottish sculptor, born in Aberdeen. He first gained prom- inence b.y the bronze group of "Alexander Taming Bucephalus," in Saint Andrew's Square, Edin- burgh, and his colossal statue of the Queen, surmounting the Royal Institute, brought the ap- pointment as sculptor to her JIajesty in Scotland (1838). Among other works by him in Edin- burgh are the seated marble figure of Sir Walter Scott, the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wel- lington (1852), and the memorial statue of Prince Albert. In the United States are a bronze statue of Roliert Burns and one of Walter Scott, in Central Park, New York City. He exectited many portrait busts. Steel was the first to intro<luce bronze-easting into Scotland. STEELE. staTe. A town in the district of Essen, Prussia. 4 miles east of Essen, on the Ruhr River. In the town are sandstone quarries, coal-mines, grist-mills, brick-kilns, distilleries, breweries, gas-works, and water-works. Popula- tion, in 1900. 12,243. STEELE, stel, Anne (1717-78). An English hymn-writer. She was the daughter of a lay Bap- tist preacher living at Broughton in Hampshire. Her life mainly passed quietly in her native shire. In 1760 appeared her devotional Poems, which were reissued after her death with additions, and a memoir by Dr. Caleb Evans (3 vols.. Bristol, 1780). Many of her hymns are in common use. Among them are "Far from These Narrow Scenes of Night" and "Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul." Consult her Bymn», Paslms, and Poems, ed. with memoir by J. Sheppard (London, 1863). STEELE, Joel Dobman (1836-86). An American educator and author, born at Lima, N. Y., and educated at Genesee College, From 1862 until 1866 he was principal of the Newark, N. Y., High School, and from 1806 until 1S72 of the Elmira Academy. In 1860 he published a popular text-book entitled Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry. Its success led him to publish a series of books, likewise intended for terms of fourteen weeks, upon Astronomy (ISdl) , Natural Philoso- phy (1869), Geoloi/y (1870), Human Physiology (1873), and Zoology (1875). With his wife, Esther B. Steele, he also wrote an even more successful series of school histories, known, from the name of the publisher, as Humes' Brief His- tories. He bequeathed .$50,000 to Syracuse Uni- versity to found the Steele chair of theistical science. STEELE, Sir Ricii.RD (1672-1729). An Eng- lish essayist, plaj'wright, and i>olitician, born in Dublin. In 1084 he was sent to the Charter- house School, where lie formed a memorable friendship with Addison. In 1090 he was enrolled at Christ Church, Oxford, but he passed to Mer- ton College (1691). In 1694 he left Oxford with- out a degree, and enlisted in the Life-Guards. An elegy which he wrote on the death of Queen Jlary (December, 1094), wisely dedicated to Lord Cutts, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, led eventuallj' to a captaincy in the I'egiment. "Finding the military life exposed to much ir- regularity," Steele wrote Tlie Christian Hero (1701), a moral treatise for his own guidance. It was not taken seriouslj' by his associ.itcs, and seems to have had little efl'ect on its volatile author. He now wrote three comedies: The Funeral (1701) ; The Lying Lorer (1703) : and The Tender Husland (1703). Though rather too deliberate in their moral purpose, they contain much delightful wit. After some vain searches, it was said, for the philosopher's stone, he mar- ried (1705) a Jlrs. Stretch, who owned an en- cumbered estate in Barbados. She died about a year after the marri.age. In 1706 Steele be- came gentleman waiter to Prince George ; in 1707 he was appointed gazetteer, and seems to have left the army. The two positions brought him £400 a year. He now secretly married ( Septem- ber 9, 1707) Miss Mary Scurlock. of Llangunnor, in Wales, who figures as 'Prue' in his curious let- ters. He took a house in Bury Street, and lived far beyond his means. The death of Prince George in 1708 put an end to his place at Court, and three years later he lost his gazetteership. But he was appointed commissioner of stamps in 1710, a post with £300 a year. Meanwhile (April 12, 1709) had appeared 'the Tatler. a triweekly containing sketches and short essays on manners, written under the pseudonym of Isaac Bicker- staff'. The periodical came to an end on .January 2, 1711, and was sticceeded on ]March 1 by the more famous /Spectator. Though the plan of these papers was Steele's, .ddison had contributed to the Tatler, and Addison now became the more important figure. When the flpectator stispended publication on December 6. 1712, Steele had writ- ten 236 papers and Addison 274. The Guardian, started March 17, 1713, was followed by several other short-lived periodicals, of which the most noteworthy is the Englishmati. In these later
