Susan McKinney Steward
Susan McKinney Steward | |
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| Born | Susan Maria Smith March 1847 Crow Hill, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Died | March 17, 1918 (aged 71) Wilberforce, Ohio, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | New York Medical College |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pediatrics, homeopathy |
| Institutions | Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People Women's Hospital and Dispensary Wilberforce University |
Susan Maria McKinney Steward (March 1847 – March 17, 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]
She was born 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] [7]
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.[8]
By 1906 both found positions at the AME's Wilberforce University in Ohio, where she worked as college physician. They then had another child.
In 1911 she attended the Universal Race Congress in London, where she delivered a paper entitled Colored American Women.
She died 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
- ^ Sylvain Cazalet (ed.) (2001). "Biography of Susan Smith McKinney Steward (1848-1919)". History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ Michael, Pollak (12 September 2009). "FYI: Pioneering Principals". The New York Times. New York, New York: The New York Times. pp. MB10. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ^ "Who Were the Women who made up the Suffrage Movement?". University of Louisville Women's Center website. Louisville, Kentucky: University of Louisville. 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
- ^ MacDonald, Meg Meneghel (2007–2009). Garnet, Sarah J. Smith Tompkins (1831-1911). Washingtone Stat: BlackPast.org. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
- ^ Gardner, P.; Glueck, G. (1991). Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-3118-4. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929
- ^ "Susan McKinney Steward biography". Women in History. 2008. Archived from the original on September 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Steward, T.G. (1920). Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern. OCLC 24557286. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
External links
- 763 at the African American Registry
- Susan McKinney Steward at Find a Grave
- 1847 births
- 1918 deaths
- 19th-century Methodists
- African-American activists
- Activists for African-American civil rights
- African-American physicians
- African-American women writers
- American homeopaths
- American organists
- American pediatricians
- American suffragists
- American women physicians
- Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
- Methodist writers
- Musicians from Brooklyn
- New York Medical College alumni
- People of the African Methodist Episcopal church
- Wilberforce University