Susan McKinney Steward

Susan McKinney Steward
Born	Susan Maria Smith March 1847 Crow Hill, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died	7 March 1918(1918-03-07) (aged 71) Wilberforce, Ohio, USA
Nationality	United States
Fields	Pediatrics, homeopathy
Institutions	Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People Women's Hospital and Dispensary Wilberforce University
Alma mater	New York Medical College

Susan Maria McKinney Steward (March 1847 - 7 March 1918) was an American physician and author. She was the third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York state.^[1]

Biography

She was born on March 1847 as Susan Maria Smith to Anne and Sylvanus Smith, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Her sister Sarah J. Garnet was the first African-American female school principal in the New York City public school system.^[2][3][4]

She played the organ at Siloam Presbyterian Church and the Bridge Street African Methodist Episcopal Church.^[5]

She taught school in Washington, D.C., and New York City then attended medical school at the New York Medical College for Women starting in 1867 and graduated as valedictorian in 1869.^[6]

In 1871 she was married to Reverend William G. McKinney from South Carolina. They had two children and he died in 1894. In 1896 she remarried to United States Army Buffalo Soldier and chaplain Theophilus Gould Steward. She moved with him to Montana, Nebraska and Texas.^[7]

By 1906 both found positions at the AME's Wilberforce University in Ohio, where she worked as college physician.

In 1911 she attended the Universal Race Congress in London, where she delivered a paper entitled Colored American Women.

She died on March 7, 1918 at Wilberforce University. She was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

Legacy

• Dr. Susan McKinney Secondary School of the Arts, Brooklyn
• Susan Smith McKinney Steward Medical Society

References

1. ^ Sylvain Cazalet (ed.) (2001). "Biography of Susan Smith McKinney Steward (1848-1919)". History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. http://www.homeoint.org/cazalet/histo/newyork.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-18. 
2. ^ Michael, Pollak (12 September 2009). "FYI: Pioneering Principals". The New York Times (New York, New York: The New York Times): pp. MB10. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/nyregion/13fyi.html. Retrieved 13 March 2010. 
3. ^ "Who Were the Women who made up the Suffrage Movement?". University of Louisville Women's Center website. Louisville, Kentucky: University of Louisville. 2008. http://louisville.edu/womenscenter/suffrage-history. Retrieved 1 March 2010. 
4. ^ MacDonald, Meg Meneghel (2007-2009). Garnet, Sarah J. Smith Tompkins (1831-1911). Washingtone Stat: BlackPast.org. http://www.blackpast.com/?q=aah/garnet-sarah-j-smith-tompkins-1831-1911. Retrieved 12 March 2010. 
5. ^ Gardner, P.; Glueck, G. (1991). Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0810931184. http://www.c21thesharrieffgroup.com/Neighborhoods.html. Retrieved 2008-11-18. 
6. ^ "Susan McKinney Steward biography". Women in History. 2008. http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/stew-sus.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-18. ^{[dead link]}
7. ^ Steward, T.G. (1920). Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern. OCLC 24557286. http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/steward/steward.html. Retrieved 2008-11-18. 

External links

• Susan McKinney Steward at the African American Registry
• Susan McKinney Steward at Find a Grave

Persondata
Name	Mackinney Steward, Susan
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	7 March 1847
Place of birth	Crow Hill, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date of death	7 March 1918
Place of death	Wilberforce, Ohio, USA