This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Steel, Calvert Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YdJBAIB/1993 Message Board Post: History of NORTH DAKOTA, by LEWIS F. CRAWFORD NORTH DAKOTA BIOGRAPHY, By a Separate Staff of Special Writers Issued in Three Volumes, Volume III, ILLUSTRATED THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1931 Members of the STEELE-L may find a picture of Alfred Steel by clicking on the URL included in this message. Submitter has no known connection or further infromation. PAGE 111 ALFRED STEEL, president of the Stutsman County Abstract & Guarantee Company, is a business man and citizen who has played a varied role in the affairs of the territory and state during the past forty years. He is a member of the State Senate and has served in the Senate almost consecutively for twenty years. Senator Steel was born at Genesee, [Waukesha County], Wisconsin, August 1, 1860, and was educated in Wisconsin public schools and graduated with the A. B. degree from Beloit College in 1880. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1883, and in the same year came to Dakota Territory and established his home at Jamestown [Stutsman County]. He has carried some practice as a lawyer but his chief interest for over forty years has been in the abstract and insurance business, representing one of the oldest organizations of the kind in the state. Senator Steel has always been a staunch Republican. He has served as alderman, twice as mayor of Jamestown, and for some years was a member of the board of County Commissioners and for twenty-eight years a member of the Jamestown Board of Education. He was elected a member of the State Senate for the session of 1909 and has served in every subsequent session with the exception of those of 1917-19. Senator Steel is a member of all the branches of York Rite Masonry, including El Zagal Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Fargo, and the B. P. 0. Elks and Rotary Club. He married in 1886 Miss Agnes J. Calvert, of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Steel have one son, T. Douglas Steel, born August 26, 1892. This son graduated from the Jamestown High School and from the University of North Dakota in 1914. In 1918 he joined the navy and was Put on duty in the Canal Zone and was not granted an honorable discharge until September, 1921. After being released from active duty he returned to North Dakota and has since been associated with his father in the abstract and insurance business. He is a York Rite Mason and Shriner, member of the B. P. 0. Elks and American Legion, the Kiwanis Club and the Presbyterian Church. The son is unmarried.[1931]