Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

ROBERT CAMPBELL STEELE, a native of Franklin County, Ky., was born May
27, 1817, and is a son of Robert and Jane (McClung) Steele, natives of
Augusta and Greenbrier Counties, Va.  His father, who had been a
manufacturer of salt in Virginia, came to Woodford County, Ky., in 1814,
and remained there three years, when he moved to Franklin County. Robert's
brother, John Steele, was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and died in
Natchez in 1819, and was for a time governor of the Territory of
Mississippi.  Robert Steele was born in 1766, and died February 21, 1842.
He was one of the Revolutionary collectors for raising money in Virginia
to pay off the expenses of the Revolution in that State.  Robert Campbell
Steele was reared on a farm in Franklin County, and in early life was a
surveyor and civil engineer.  From 1847 to 1854 he was engaged in business
with Gen. Thomas H. Taylor and John J. Hampton at different times, and
afterward was a coal merchant for eight or ten years.  He became
proprietor of and conducted the Capital Hotel in 1858-1859, and then
resumed the coal trade; he again took charge of the Capital in 1874, and
continued there until 1879.  He then went to Louisville and conducted the
Willard Hotel one year; then engaged in farming until 1884, when he
resumed the coal business.  In August, 1886, he became the proprietor of
the Meriwether Hotel, and is its present proprietor.  He was married in
1850 to Miss Sarah Branham, of Franklin County, and has one child living,
Anna.  Col. William Steele, of Woodford County, an uncle of Robert
Campbell Steele, was one of the first settlers of that county, and one
of the earliest surveyors in Kentucky.

Steele McClung Branham
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Woodford-KY Augusta-VA Greenbrier-VA

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