Lt. Stephen Atkins SwailsPosted in Articles, Biography, History, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2017-02-08 20:48Z by Steven |
Kingstree News
Kingstree, South Carolina
2017-02-07
Cassandra Williams Rush, Special to The News
 Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Photo by Ronald Walton |
Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails, an attorney, a member of the Electoral College, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, was the Mayor of Kingstree. He was born February 23, 1832 in the city of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died May 17, 1900 in the Kingstree.
Swails was biracial and born a free black whose complexion was so light he was often mistaken as white…
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