About Robert Steere
Lived 1833 – 1910 (aged 76–77). Robert Steere was an American politician.
Robert Steere (c. 1833–1910) was a latter 19th century pioneer in California, nine years after U.S. statehood. He was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the legislative branch of the city government.
Personal life Steere was born in New York State in about 1833 and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, thence to Sioux City, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska. He set out with a party of seven across the Great Plains and arrived in California in 1859. From there he went to Placerville and then to El Dorado. He married Anne Higgins there in 1864.
He returned to New York for even years, then came back to California, finally settling in Los Angeles, California. Interment was at Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.
Vocation
Steere purchased a business in El Dorado, where he also was postmaster and agent for Wells Fargo & Company.
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Robert Steere was born in 1833.
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Robert Steere died in 1910.
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