. Historical records of a hundred and twenty years, Auburn, N. Y. . f the Seminary. Dr. Steel organized the first Sunday School in Auburnin 1818, The school was for colored children of thevillage and, although receiving much criticism on accountof the undertaking. Dr. Steel persisted in the labor andwrought much good through his efforts. He was alsoactive as clerk of several of the school districts before theunion school system was adopted. In politics Dr. Steel, in the early days, was a Whigand naturally gravitated into the Republican party whenthat party was organized in 1856. In all his rel
. Historical records of a hundred and twenty years, Auburn, N. Y. . f the Seminary. Dr. Steel organized the first Sunday School in Auburnin 1818, The school was for colored children of thevillage and, although receiving much criticism on accountof the undertaking. Dr. Steel persisted in the labor andwrought much good through his efforts. He was alsoactive as clerk of several of the school districts before theunion school system was adopted. In politics Dr. Steel, in the early days, was a Whigand naturally gravitated into the Republican party whenthat party was organized in 1856. In all his relations inlife Dr. Steel was earnest and generous and always theembodiment of honor. He was a valuable citizen and atrue friend to every good cause. Dr. Steel was thricemarried. In 1823 he married Miss Alice Hyde Marnell,and his second wife was Miss Sarah M. Knowles, of Darby,Pennsylvania, whom he married in 1831. June 23, 1837,he married Miss Mary Cadwell Knowles of the latter marriage there were five children only one ofwhom, Miss Mary, DR. RICHARD STEEL 1 - . — ^ : V ^ *. 1 .«Tt-<!, -? . - V —-=^^j, HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS 145 BANKS AND BANKEES Auburn had been incorporated as a village two yearswhen the first bank, the Bank of Auburn, was village had a population of approximately twelvehundred and the volume of local business had grownto considerable magnitude. There were a score or moreof small industries of various kinds along the Outlet, allof which were doing a prosperous business. Besides, themercantile business had become quite extensive, owingin some degree to the fact that Auburn was the tradecenter of a wide area of territory. Added to these ele-ments of urgency, the State, on account of the new prison,was paying out and disbursing for various purposes alarge amount of money. There was not a bank in thewestern part of the State. It was time to have a bank. The movement toward starting a bank in Auburnbegan in
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