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Henry Jonah Steere (1830–1889) was a prominent American philanthropist and industrialist from Rhode Island. ==Childhood==
Henry J. Steere was born in Providence, Rhode Island on April 11, 1830 to Alice Smith (1789–1863) and Jonah Steere (1788–1871), a manufacturer, saddler and harness maker. Henry was their only surviving child. Steere was a Yankee, whose ancestor John Steere immigrated to the Providence from Great Britain before 1660 and married the daughter of Reverend William Wickenden.〔James Pierce Root, ''Steere Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of John Steere, who Settled in Providence, Rhode Island, about the year 1660,'' (Providence: Riverside Press, 1890). (Wickenden's daughter married John Steere, progenitor of that family)〕 Henry J. Steere was educated at home and in the public schools, eventually graduating from Providence's high school. Steere then became a clerk in the Merchants Bank. Steere served as a lieutenant in the First Light Infantry Regiment of the Rhode Island Militia. During the Civil War he served at Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island as part of the guard of the Lovell General Hospital.〔The Providence Journal, "Obituary: Henry J. Steere," October 29, 1889, pg. 8.〕
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