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STEINER, MICHAEL, farmer; Sec. 5; P. O. Loraine; was born in Germany, Jan. 30, 1810; came to New York in 1836 (where he saw President Van Buren); thence to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he got employment on a coal boat; went to New Orleans; came up the river to Vicksburg; stopped one month, and to Quincy in 1837; got a situation on the steamboat Olive Branch, plying between St. Louis and Galena, among the first boats that run on the Upper Mississippi; afterward engaged to Mr. Whipple in a saw mill; sawed the blue ash flooring that went into the first house that Mr. Browning built; married Ann Catherine Gable in 1839. She was born in Germany, Feb. 20, 1820. Had nine children, seven living — four boys and three girls; has raised wheat and sold it for twenty-five cents per bushel. Mr. Steiner remembers the winters of 1839-40, the river froze so early that the merchants could not get their supplies, so they had to cart them from St. Louis; he saw salt sold that winter for $4 per bushel. Mr. Steiner moved on to the place where he now resides in 1842; has accumulated a fine property; has at this time 300 acres of land; gave his two married sons 160 acres; has 150 acres under good cultivation. Mr. Steiner was subpoenaed as a witness at Macomb in 1845; made his way the best he could, keeping the direction, there being no roads in that part of the county. Prince Albert’s father was Mr. Steiner’s captain in the regular army in Germany.