[p. 701] physician and surgeon at Mahoningtown, has occupied his present well appointed quarters in the Postoffice Block since May, 1906. Dr. Steen was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1874, and is a son of William J. and Lucy (Parker) Steen.
As the father of Dr. Steen was concerned in the oil industry the family had no settled home for some years, living in the neighborhood of the various Pennsylvania oil fields. When William L. was five years old his mother died and in the following year the father went to Colorado, and the child was taken to the home of his grandparents, Hugh Steen and wife, at New Castle. Capt. Hugh Steen was one of the early boat captains on the Erie and Beaver Canal.
William L. Steen was educated in the common and high school at New Castle. For a time he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad and for seven years was postal clerk on the Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Railroad. During this period of employment he was preparing for the medical profession, and in 1901 he entered the Western University of Pittsburg, which is now known as the Pittsburg University, and was graduated with credit from that institution in the class of 1905. Dr. Steen is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society. His fraternal connection is with the Masonic Blue Lodge. He has gained the confidence and esteem of the residents of Mahoningtown, both as a physician and as a citizen.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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