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 | | According to the 1892 Portrait and Biographical Record of Lee County, Illinois, "he it was who built one of the first elevators ever erected in the city, and he was one of the first to engage in the pork-packing business, which has since assumed such enormous proportions" (p. |
 | | In the 1880 census of Dixon, Lee Co., IL, he is listed as a "retired contractor" living on Ottawa St, and the 1881 history of Lee County sums him up quite modestly as "George Steele, capitalist." In 1891, he was elected mayor of Dixon. |
 | | BELLA GEORGINA STEEL(E) was born 1879 in Illinois, and died 1962 in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois. |
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