Isaac Nevett Steele

Isaac Nevett Steele (April 25, 1809 – April 11, 1891) was an American diplomat and lawyer who was "universally recognized for years as the leader of the Maryland Bar." Early life Steele was born on April 25, 1809, in Cambridge, Maryland. He was the ninth of ten children born to Mary (née Nevett) Steele (1769–1836) and James Steele (1760–1816). Among his many siblings was brother U.S. Representative John Nevett Steele; and sister Mary Nevett Steele, who married John Campbell Henry (the eldest son and heir of Gov. John Henry); Ann Billings (née Steele) Upshur; James Billings Steele; Henry Maynadier Steele; Catharine Sarah Maria (née Steele) Ray; Sarah Maynadier Steele. His paternal grandparents were Anne (née Billings) Steele and Henry Steele, a native of England who emigrated from Whitehaven (on the west coast of Cumbria) to Oxford, Maryland, in 1730 and served as a representative of Dorchester County at the convention which met at Annapolis in June 1774. Steele was educated at the Cambridge Public Academy under Rev. Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton and prepared at St. John's College in Annapolis (formerly known as King William's School) until the age of sixteen when he entered Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (then known as Washington College).