T.C. Steele’s Birthday

Theodore Clement Steele was born September 11, 1847 near Gosport, in Owen Country, Indiana. He is the eldest child of Samuel Hamilton and Harriet Newell Evans Steele. His father Samuel was a saddle maker and farmer. The Steele family moved to Waveland, Indiana in 1852 when T.C. Steele was 5 years old. He lived in Waveland until he left  to pursue painting career at about age 18. After living and working in Battle Creek, Michigan, Indianapolis and Germany, Steele and his second wife Selma moved into the “House of the Singing Winds” in Brown County in 1907. He died in this home and is buried on the property which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is an Indiana State Historic Site.