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Samuel Steward
Born in Woodsfield, Steward taught English, then became a tattoo artist in Chicago and later in California. He wrote scholarly and fiction books, including under the name Phil Andros, and worked with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.
At a glance
- Born
- 1909-07-23
- Died
- 1993-12-31
- Known as
- Writer, Artist, Professor
Life story
Samuel Steward was born in Woodsfield in 1909 and became a college English teacher at Ohio State, Carroll College and other schools.
In the 1950s and 1960s he worked as a tattoo artist in Chicago, and later in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he tattooed members of the Hells Angels. He wrote Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos, a social history of American tattooing.
He corresponded with Gertrude Stein and met Thornton Wilder and Thomas Mann, and he gave Alfred Kinsey records and introductions to gay men in Chicago. He published fiction as Phil Andros. He died in Berkeley in 1993 and was added to the Leather Hall of Fame in 2012.
Timeline
- 1909-07-23: Born (Woodsfield, OH) source
- 1950: Works as a tattoo artist in Chicago (1950s-60s) (Chicago, IL) source
- 1950: Collaborates with Alfred Kinsey (over the same decades) source
- 1993-12-31: Dies (Berkeley, CA) source
- 2012: Inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame source
- 2017: Bootprint in San Francisco's Leather History Alley (San Francisco, CA) source
What Samuel is known for
- Tattoo artist and writer
- Collaborator with Alfred Kinsey
- Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos
Honors and things named for them
- Leather Hall of Fame, 2012
- Bootprint, Leather History Alley, San Francisco, 2017
Ohio places
Where Samuel Steward was born, lived, worked and is remembered, with the ZIP code, town and county pages for each.
- Born: Woodsfield, Monroe County ZIP 43793 · Woodsfield · Monroe County
Further reading
Sources
Confidence. Medium: the main facts were confirmed, but some details (often an address or ZIP code) were not.
- Wikipedia: Samuel Steward birth, career, works, honors
