George W. Steele
George W. Steele was born
in Fayette county, Indiana in 1839. Most of his early life was
spent at Marion Indiana where he attended the public schools. He
subsequently attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware,
Ohio.
At the age of twenty years
he began to read law in his father's office and two years later, was
admitted to the bar. He entered the volunteer military service
in April 1861, as a private, and served continuously until the close
of the War being mustered out of the army with the rank of lieutenant
colonel. He served four terms in Congress (1881-1889).
He was named as governor,
and immediately came to Guthrie, which had been designated as the
temporary capital, and entered upon the discharge of his official
duties May 22, 1890.
After he left Oklahoma he
was again returned to Congress from his old district in Indiana, where
he still lives (1908).
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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