User:Maralia/George Steers


 * 1820-1856
 * Papers at UMich library
 * company George Steers & Haycombe; further info:
 * bio info in NYT article:
 * extensive NYT article about congratulatory dinner for Steers after America's launch:
 * USCG pilot boat/lighthouse tender presumably named after him:
 * engraving (portrait): ; now at Image:George Steers.jpg
 * his name was engraved on the America's Cup:
 * Henry Howe, Adventures and Achievements of Americans, 1859; pp. 140 – 146. Online at Google books:
 * Also Sheldon, G. W., The Old Ship-builders of New-York, Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 65, Issue 386, July 1882. Mentions the Steers brothers on pp. 236ff. Portraits of both on p. 229.
 * An obituary in the U.S. Nautical Magazine, 1856, date of death reported as September 26; the accident seems to have taken place on September 25 (c.f. Sheldon above).
 * New York Times article on his Funeral, September 29, 1856: coffin reported to have been inscribed "Died Sept. 25, 1856 Aged 37 years, 1 month 10 days", which would give August 15, 1819 as his birthday.
 * Another report on his death: accident in the afternoon, death at 9:10pm.
 * 1819 birth year confirmed by the America's Cup Hall of Fame and also by Howe above.
 * 1819 birth year confirmed by the America's Cup Hall of Fame and also by Howe above.