From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). -

Born 1847 in Connecticut; son of John Wesley Steer(e), brother of Frank J. Steere; active in Westfield, Massachusetts, by 1870; with J. W. Steere & Son(s) of Springfield, Massachusetts; succeeded his father; briefly partner with George Turner in Steere & Turner, 1893/1894; died 1898.

Patent #455,365; July 7, 1891; combination.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 241.
• Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 413.
• Organ Handbook: (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1985), 23. [Published in connection with the OHS annual convention.]
• Stephen L. Pinel, "Organbuilders and Their Families: in the Population Schedules of the Federal and State Census Surveys", The Tracker 32:1, 23.