When Harry William Steele was born on 27 October 1888, in Rockwood, Randolph, Illinois, United States, his father, William Harvey Steele, was 26 and his mother, Ellen Eliza M. Brown, was 25. He married Anna Julia Pryor on 29 May 1915, in Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Granite City, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Nameoki Township, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 29 April 1978, in New Bloomfield, Callaway, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Glen Carbon, Madison, Illinois, United States.
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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