[2] He joined North Dakota Agricultural College in 1932 with bacteriology as a major and then moved to Ohio State University, receiving a doctorate in 1939.

He worked from 1940 in the US Public Health Service as a bacteriologist in the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana.

Academic Press accepted that proposal the next year but only if it would be renamed more narrowly as the Journal of Insect Pathology.

[3][4] By 1965 it had become clear that Steinhaus's original proposal had been more appropriate, and J Insect Path became the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology.

[5] Steinhaus married Mabry Clark, who was a bacteriologist at Ohio State University, and they had two daughters and a son (Peggy, Tim and Cindy).