When Edwin Charles Steffes was born on 17 September 1899, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, his father, Michael Steffes, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Mengelkoch, was 32. He had at least 1 daughter with Louisa Agnes Ward. He died on 1 November 1957, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Evergreen Park, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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Dutch: patronymic from a shortened form of the personal name Steffen. Compare Steffens .
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