Abstract:
Andrew Jackson Stedman, a native of Gates County, NC, was a literary magazine publisher in Salem, NC and later in Raleigh, NC, a. First Lieutenant in the Civil War and a lawyer in Pittsboro, NC after the war. In 1870, Stedman published a newspaper in Danberry, NC. He then moved Patrick County, VA in 1873 where he practiced law, published a newspaper and started the apple industry there by planting over 150,000 apple trees. The town of Stedman in Patrick County, VA is named for him.