Arthur Steere
Arthur Wallace Steere (1865-1943) was a Rhode Island politician and prominent businessman and landowner.
Arthur W. Steere was born in Glocester, Rhode Island on September 3, 1865 to Seth Hunt Steere and Lucy L. Smith. Steere was a direct descendant of Rhode Island founder, Roger Williams, General William West, and Pilgrim George Soule. As a youth he worked on his family's farm in Glocester and then went to Scituate, Rhode Island where he engaged in the teaming business for three years. Steere married into the Brayton family when he married Nettie Brayton in 1892. She died during childbirth. Next, Steere married Mamie Farrar in 1894. Eventually, Arthur Steere became the owner of over one thousand acres of property in the Rhode Island towns of Johnston, Burrillville, Foster, Smithfield, and Gloucester, making him one of the state's largest landowners. He owned various businesses on this land, including lumber yards, which produced railroad ties and telegraph poles, and also dairy farms, fruit orchards, refrigeration facilities, and a teaming business that first paved the majority of the roads in northern Rhode Island. Steere had over one hundred and fifty employees at the turn of the century. Senator Steere was a lifelong progressive Republican, and in 1907 he was elected to the Rhode Island Senate representing Greenville, Rhode Island. As a senator, Steere was extremely active in property issues, serving on the property committee. Steere was also a member of the Freemasons of Greenville and Scituate and of the Greenville Free Will Baptist Church. After Steere died in January of 1943, his sons Seth Hunt Steere and Henry J. Steere took over the bulk of his businesses and landholdings. Steere was buried at Harmony Chapel Cemetery in Glocester.
References
 "Arthur Wallace Steere," The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: Biographical,(NY: The American Historical Society, 1920) 121-122.
"Arthur Wallace Steere," Representative men and old families of Rhode Island : genealogical records and historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the old families. (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1908).
External links
Steere's House (PDF)
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