Sunday, July 31, 2022

The prep students of the Radical University: Robert A. Stewart

 Robert Adger Stewart 

South Carolina.
Occupation: post office clerk.

Robert Adger Stewart first appears in the historical record as a student at the University of South Carolina. He was a member of the second class of the preparatory program. He described as being from Columbia, and he remained in the city after Reconstruction. In 1883, he was working as a clerk in the city post office.

Sources Cited

1) 8) Official Register of the United States, Containing a List of Officers and Employees in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service: 1883.


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