User:Maralia/George Steers

• 1820-1856
• Papers at UMich library [1]
• company George Steers & Haycombe; further info: [2]
• bio info in NYT article: [3]
• extensive NYT article about congratulatory dinner for Steers after America's launch: [4]
• USCG pilot boat/lighthouse tender presumably named after him: [5]
• engraving (portrait): [6]; now at Image:George Steers.jpg
• his name was engraved on the America's Cup: [7]
• Shaw, David W. (2002). America's Victory: The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans-- and How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever. Free Press. ISBN 9780743235167.
• Henry Howe, Adventures and Achievements of Americans, 1859; pp. 140 – 146. Online at Google books:[8]
• Also Sheldon, G. W., The Old Ship-builders of New-York, Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 65, Issue 386, July 1882. Mentions the Steers brothers on pp. 236ff. Portraits of both on p. 229.
• An obituary in the U.S. Nautical Magazine, 1856, date of death reported as September 26; the accident seems to have taken place on September 25 (c.f. Sheldon above).
• New York Times article on his Funeral, September 29, 1856: coffin reported to have been inscribed "Died Sept. 25, 1856 Aged 37 years, 1 month 10 days", which would give August 15, 1819 as his birthday.
• Another report on his death: accident in the afternoon, death at 9:10pm.
• 1819 birth year confirmed by the America's Cup Hall of Fame and also by Howe above.