William Gladstone Steel
William Gladstone Steel (September 7, 1854 – October 21, 1934) is an American journalist who is known for campaigning for 17 years for the United States Congress to designate Crater Lake as a National Park. Steel is from Ohio, and worked in the new
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William Gladstone Steel (September 7, 1854 – October 21, 1934) is an American journalist who is known for campaigning for 17 years for the United States Congress to designate Crater Lake as a National Park. Steel is from Ohio, and worked in the newspaper business before becoming a mail carrier.William Steel was born on September 7, 1854, in Stafford, Ohio, to Elizabeth Lawrie and William Steel,[1] abolitionists who were active in the Underground Railroad.[2] Steel's brother, George A. Steel, became Oregon State Treasurer.[1] His sister, Jane, attended St. Mary's School in Medford, Oregon.
On March 25, 1868 the Steel family moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a farm near Oswego, Kansas.[3] While a schoolboy in Kansas, in May 1870, Steel read an article, in the newspaper wrapping his lunch, about the discovery of Crater Lake.[
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