When Albert U Steele was born in 1856, in Macomb, Michigan, United States, his father, Richard J. Steele, was 56 and his mother, Alvinia Harrington, was 37. He married Bertha Sommerfeldt on 23 October 1885, in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Clinton, Macomb, Michigan, United States in 1860 and East Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States in 1880. He died on 21 December 1897, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 41.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.
English: variant of Stile .
Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.
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