Edward Strieby Steele (1850–1942) was an American botanist.
In 1889 he went to Washington, D.C., to work for the editorial staff of the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
[2] In Washington, D.C., on 28 January 1891 he married Grace Avery King (1848–1932).
[3] Edward S. Steele worked for the U.S. federal government for twenty-seven years in "various capacities including a botanical clerk for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as an editorial assistant for the United States National Museum, Division of Plants, 1912–1918, and an assistant botanist.
She was a naturalist and nature teacher, credited as the main person responsible for California's adoption of the California quail as the state bird.