Edwin B. Steere was a beer manufacturer at 32 Harkness Street in Providence in 1885. By 1890, he became a bottler at 938 High Street which was also his residence. Steere took in a partner, Fred Biggs, and the company became the Olneyville Mineral Water Company.

In 1893, Steere became sole owner of the company and began manufacturing soda water and hop beer at 1768 Westminister Street. By 1901 he was located at Odd Fellows Square at the junction of Plainfield Street and Pocasset Avenue in Olneyville also dealing in wood and coal. In 1902 he gave up the bottling business but continued selling coal.