{"id":3324,"date":"2022-01-10T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:29:03","slug":"steele-isaac-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/steele-isaac-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Steele, Isaac M."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hon. Isaac M. Steele<\/strong>, the oldest lawyer of Lauderdale Co., is the son of David
\nand Elizabeth (Jetton) Steele. The father was born in Ireland in 1763, and
\nthe mother in Mecklenburg County, N. C., in 1773. He came to America when
\nabout twenty-seven years old, and located in North Carolina, where they were
\nmarried in 1795, and soon after moved to East Tennessee, where they remained
\nuntil they died. Four children were born to them. Our subject alone
\nsurvives. Both parents were strict members of the Associate Reformed
\nPresbyterian Church, but after Mr. Steele died she joined the Methodist
\nChurch. In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat; by trade a double-
\ncoverlet weaver, being skilled in the trade, and he also farmed on a small
\nscale. Though a laborer, he was a man of fine mind and of fair education, and
\ndied in 1812, the mother surviving until 1849. Our subject was born March 7,
\n1805, in Knox County, Tenn., and is of Irish descent on the father’s side, and
\nScotch-French on his mother’s; was raised on a farm, and received a very
\nlimited education, but at the age of twenty-one he commenced teaching, and
\ntaught for several winters, working on the farm during the summer. In 1829 he
\nmarried Jane Hadley, who was born in North Carolina, January 5, 1811, and of
\neleven children born to this marriage four sons and two daughters are living:
\nStephen H. and David P. are doctors; Thomas, a lawyer. Mr. Steele is not a
\nchurch member; his wife is a Presbyterian. In 1840 he was elected county
\ncourt clerk, serving also as deputy circuit clerk, and the duties of these
\npositions not being arduous, he commenced the study of law, which had been a
\ndesire of his for many years. In 1844 he was made circuit court clerk, and
\nwas admitted to the bar the same year. In 1848 he was again elected county
\ncourt clerk, and practiced his profession in adjoining counties, and has made
\nlaw his chief field of labor. In 1855 he was elected to the State Senate. He
\nwas a Whig until 1856, but has since been a Democrat. In 1857 he moved to
\nCovington, Tenn., and lived there for seventeen years, then returned to
\nRipley. He has been a licensed practitioner at the bar for forty-two years,
\nand, although advanced in years, still attends to considerable business, and
\nis held in high esteem.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hon. Isaac M. Steele, the oldest lawyer of Lauderdale Co., is the son of David and Elizabeth (Jetton) Steele. The father was born in Ireland in 1763, and the mother in Mecklenburg County, N. C., in 1773. He came to …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-steele"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}