Susan mckinney steward biography
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Susan mckinney steward biography
Susan McKinney Steward
American physician and writer
Susan Maria McKinney Steward (March &#; March 17, ) 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][2][3]
McKinney-Steward's medical career focused on prenatal care and childhood disease.
From to , she ran her own practice in Brooklyn and co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary.[4] She sat on the board and practiced medicine at the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People.
From , she worked as college physician at the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Wilberforce University in Ohio. In , she attended the Universal Race Congress in New York, where she delivered a paper entitled "Colored American Women".[1]
Biography
Early life
McKinney-Steward was born Susan Maria Smith to Anne and Sylvanus Smith in She lived at Pearl Street, in Weeksville, now C