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Daniel was born on October 5, 1824 at Windham, New York, United States, a son of Perez and Clarissa (Brainerd) Steele and a descendant of George Steele who came to Massachusetts in 1631/32, later settling in Connecticut.
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Daniel was born on October 5, 1824 at Windham, New York, United States, a son of Perez and Clarissa (Brainerd) Steele and a descendant of George Steele who came to Massachusetts in 1631/32, later settling in Connecticut.
During his entire preparatory course at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massachussets, he supported himself by teaching school as he did also during his freshman year at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where he was graduated, second in his class, in 1848.
For two years after studies Steele was a tutor in mathematics at Wesleyan, and during this period, 1849, he joined the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he remained a member till 1906, when he assumed a retired relation. From his ordination in 1850 until 1861, he served churches in the following places in Massachusetts: Fitchburg, Leominster, Boston, Malden, Springfield, and Holliston.
Leaving the pastorate in the latter year, he was from 1862 to 1869 professor of ancient languages in Genesee College, Lima, New York, and from 1869 to 1871 was acting president of that institution. When the college was moved to Syracuse and became Syracuse University in 1871, he held the chair of mental and moral philosophy there for a year and also served as vice-president of the college of liberal arts in 1871-72, and as acting chancellor of the university in 1872.
Again resuming the pastorate, he ministered continuously to churches in Massachusetts from 1872 to 1888, serving in Boston, Auburndale, Lynn, Salem, Peabody, Reading, and again in Boston. While pastor in Reading in 1884 he became instructor in New Testament Greek and exegesis in Boston University.
From 1886 to 1899 he taught in the New England Deaconess' Training School, and then devoted the remainder of his life to literary work. He was the author of a commentary on the Book of Joshua which appeared in 1873 as the third volume in D. C. Whedon, Commentary on the Old Testament; and in addition published Binney's Theological Compend Improved (1875); Love Enthroned (1875), his most widely known and influential work; Milestone Papers (1878); a commentary on Leviticus and Numbers (1891). He was a constant contributor to the religious press, was associate editor of Divine Life, 1889-93, and of the Christian Witness, 1896.
He died at his home in Milton, Massachussets, in his ninetieth year.
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He was a stanch opponent of slavery and a persistent advocate of temperance and woman's rights.
He was a man of scholarly attainments and saintly character; but with his earnest piety he combined the saving grace of a delightful sense of humor. His outlook was broad and he was in full sympathy with the liberal scientific and theological opinion of his time. He had a wide circle of friends both within and beyond the confines of his own denomination.
On August 8, 1850, he was married to Harriet, daughter of Rev. Amos Binney of Wilbraham, Massachussets, and two sons and two daughters survived him.