Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Steiner a Bavaria zuwa Francisca () da Wolfgang Steiner. Ya shiga juyin juya hali
a kan Austrian Empire a 1848, barin ga Arewacin Amirka jim kadan bayan haka. Ya zauna a New York da Buffalo kafin ya zauna a Toronto a shekara ta 1852, inda ya kafa kasuwancin dutse da dutse. Ya zama mai adalci na zaman lafiya a 1870, kuma a 1880 an zabe shi alderman na St. John's Ward, wani matsayi da ya yi na tsawon shekaru biyar.