. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. ty. He washonest and upright in all his dealings, and wonthe respect of all who knew him. He was a mem-ber of Orion lodge, I. O. O. F., of East Oak-land, the only secret organization with which heever affiliated. Mr. Steere was united in marriage with E. Leonard, a widow who had come to Cali-fornia in 1854. She was born in Albany, N. Y.,and with her parents had removed to Providence,R. I. Six children were born to Mr. and Mr
. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. ty. He washonest and upright in all his dealings, and wonthe respect of all who knew him. He was a mem-ber of Orion lodge, I. O. O. F., of East Oak-land, the only secret organization with which heever affiliated. Mr. Steere was united in marriage with E. Leonard, a widow who had come to Cali-fornia in 1854. She was born in Albany, N. Y.,and with her parents had removed to Providence,R. I. Six children were born to Mr. and , of whom three died in infancy, and onedaughter, Dottie, at the age of fifteen years. An-other daughter, Julia Willie, now deceased, mar-ried Frank H. Richardson, and had three daugh-ters, namely Emilia Steere, Barbara and surviving son, Henry Steere, the eldest inthe family, was born in San Francisco in 1856,and received his education in the public schoolsof Oakland and in the east. He worked for atime with his father, after which he became atelegraph operator and bookkeeper in the employof the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Upon. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 485 the breaking out of the Spanish-American war heenHsted for service and was commissioned cap-tain of Battery D by Governor Budd. Upon theclose of the war the battery returned to SanFrancisco, but Captain Steere remained andjoined the Thirty-sixth Regiment and was com-missioned captain by President McKinley, andlater became quartermaster of the regiment anddistinguished himself according to the reports ofGeneral MacArthur. After the war he remainedin the government service and organized the rev-enue department of Manila, of which he is nowchief deputy. He is married, his wife being form-erly Etta Palmer, and they have three sons andtwo daughters, one attending the University ofCalifornia: Thomas, Ruth, Ned, Jack andJulia H. ANDREW SMITH HALLIDIE. In the citizenship of California it may be
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