Henry Maynadier Steele was born on 26. Sep. 1865. He was the son of
Isaac Nevett Steele and
Rosa Landonia Nelson. Henry Maynadier Steele married
Margaret Hollins McKim, daughter of
Hollins McKim and
Eliza Frances Voorhees, on 6. Feb. 1888. Henry Maynadier Steele married
Margaret Hollins McKim, daughter of
Hollins McKim and
Eliza Frances Voorhees, on 6. Feb. 1894 at Baltimore, Maryland. Henry Maynadier Steele died in 1909. Henry Maynadier Steele studied at M.I.T. before taking a position in the engineering department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. he worked briefly for the U.S. Geological Survey before becoming an assistant engineer for field work and general construction of the Erie Railway in 1887. In 1890 he was promoted to principal assistant engineer.
He left the Erie in 1893 because of illness and lived for a time in Asheville, North Carolina, where he hoped his health would improve. In 1897 he moved to Savannah, Georgia, when he was appointed to the office of civil engineering for the Central of Georgia Railway Company. In 1900 he was appointed chief engineer. He resigned in 1906 to accept the post of chief civil engineer of J. C. White and Company, one of the country's leading engineering firms, located in New York, and was working for them when his health failed again and he died, aged only forty-three.