Susan Smith McKinney Steward

(1847-1918) lived at Fort Niobrara, Cherry County. Physician, became the> first African-American woman to graduate in 1870 from a medical school in the state of New York and only the third in the United States, was known as leading woman physician for 48 years, including almost 20 years as a faculty member at Wilberforce University in Ohio, an advocate of women in medicine, suffrage, and temperance; served with her husband T. G. Steward at Fort Niobrara from 1902 to 1906. Consult Nebraska History, Vol 66 (Fall 1985) 272-293 and Notable Black American Women, Vol 1 (Gale, 1992) 1077-1079 and American National Biography, Vol 20 (1999) 737-738.

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