Theophilus G. Steward

(1843-1924) lived at Fort Niobrara, Cherry County. Clergyman, author, educator, after serving as minister from 1862 for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, he was chaplain with the 25th Infantry Regiment for 16 years, taught at Wilberforce University in Ohio, and authored several books, pamphlets, and newspaper articles. Consult his autobiography From 1864 to 1915, Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry (AME Book Concern, 1921) and Nebraska History, Vol 66 (Fall 1985) 272-293 and Dictionary of American Negro Biography (Norton, 1982) 570-571 and American National Biography, Vol 20 (1999) 738- 739.

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