Steiner, Lewis Henry

Physician, educator, churchman and librarian. Dr. Steiner was educated at Frederick Academy and Marshall College where he graduated in 1846. he received his medical degree from the university of Pennsylvania and began his practice in Frederick. In 1855 he decided to devote his life to education and became professor of chemistry and pharmacy at Columbia College and the National medical College in Washington, D.C. He was instrumental in forming and reorganizing Maryland College of Pharmacy. In 1884, Enoch Pratt of Baltimore hired him as librarian of Pratt Library, a position he held until his death. Mr. Steiner was amember of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute from 1876-1892.