STEWARD, Theophilus Gould, clergyman, born in Gouldtown, New Jersey, 17 April, 1843. His parents were of African descent. He was licensed to preach at twenty years of age, and at twenty-one entered the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal church, and was stationed in Camden, New Jersey He went to the south in 1865, and preached and taught in South Carolina and Georgia. He wrote the platform upon which the Republican party of Georgia was first organized, and returning to the north in 1871, by appointment of his church, reopened the missions in the island of Hayti. On his return he took a full course in theology at the Protestant Episcopal divinity-school in Philadelphia, and also studied in the School of elocution there. He has written an "Essay on Death, Hades, and the Resurrection "; "The End of the World" ; and " Genesis Re-read" (Philadelphia, 1885).