Theophilus Gould "T.G." Steward
Born	(1843-04-17)April 17, 1843 Gouldtown, New Jersey, United States
Died	January 11, 1924(1924-01-11) (aged 80) Wilberforce, Ohio, United States
Buried	Gouldtown Memorial Park Gouldtown, Cumberland, New Jersey
Allegiance	United States
Service/ branch	United States Army
Rank	Captain
Unit	25th U.S. Colored Infantry
Relations	Dr. Susan Smith McKinney (wife)
Other work	Author, educator, clergyman

Theophilus Gould "T.G." Steward (April 17, 1843 – January 11, 1924) was an American author, educator, and clergyman. He was aU.S. Army chaplain andBuffalo Soldier of25th U.S. Colored Infantry.

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Steward was born to James Steward and Rebecca Gould inGouldtown, New Jersey. The son of free Blacks reared in a family that stressed education, he received his formal education in the Gouldtown public schools.

Steward was ordained a minister in theAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church in 1863. Following theCivil War, Steward helped organize the A.M.E. Church inSouth Carolina andGeorgia. He was also active inReconstruction politics in Georgia.

Steward moved from South Carolina to pastor the AME church in Macon, Georgia March 17, 1868. After the church was burned in a mysterious fire, he helped build a new AME church. The cornerstone was laid January 16, 1870 in the presence of 2,000 black Maconites. After the war he graduated from theEpiscopal Divinity School ofPhiladelphia, and later was awarded aDoctor of Divinity degree fromWilberforce University inWilberforce, Ohio, in 1881.

From 1872 to 1891 Steward established a church inHaiti and preached in the eastern United States.^{[citation needed]} In 1891 he joined the25th U.S. Colored Infantry, serving as its chaplain until 1907, including service inCuba during theSpanish–American War, and in thePhilippines. He was a participant in the March 5, 1897 meeting to celebrate the memory of Frederick Douglass which founded theAmerican Negro Academy led byAlexander Crummell.^[1]

From the founding of the organization until his death in 1924, Steward remained active among the scholars, editors, and activists of this first major African American learned society, refuting racist scholarship, promoting black claims to individual, social, and political equality, and studying the history and sociology of African American life.^[2] Between 1907 and his death on January 11, 1924, Steward was a professor of history, French, and logic at Wilberforce University.

Steward was married to Elizabeth Gadsden (d. 1893) with whom he had eight sons: Frank Rudolph (b. 1872; Stephen Hunter (b. 1874), Theophilus Bolden (b. 1879), Charles, James, Benjamin, Walter, and Gustavus (b. 1883). His second wife wasDr. Susan Smith McKinney, the third African-American physician in the United States. He was a cousin toAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) bishopBenjamin F. Lee.

• Steward, T.G. (1885).Genesis Re-read. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Rooms.OCLC 23787616.
• Steward, T.G. (1877).Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Church Publications.OCLC 182539662.
• Steward, T.G. (1897).Active Service, or Religious Work Among U.S. Soldiers.OCLC 48114600.
• Steward, T.G. (1899).A Charleston Love Story. New York: F. Tennyson Neely.OCLC 1593693.
• Steward, T.G. (1904).The Colored Regulars in the United States Army. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern.OCLC 1380129.
• Steward, William; Steward, T.G. (1913).Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement of Ancient Date. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co.OCLC 1441631.
• Steward, T.G. (1914).The Haitian Revolution, 1791 to 1804. New York: T.Y. Crowell Co.OCLC 23297934.
• Steward, T.G. (1920).Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern.OCLC 24557286.
• Steward, T.G. (1888).The End of the World; or, Clearing the Way for the Fullness of the Gentiles. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Church Book Rooms. OCLC4090482.

• African-American firsts

• U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School (1991)."Chapter 4: The Chaplaincy 1865-1917".A Brief History of the United States Army Chaplain Corps. Ft. Monmouth, NJ: Dept. of the Army.OCLC 26647374. Archived fromthe original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved2008-11-18.

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