STEEVES, OMAR EDWIN (1864-1941)

STEEVES, OMAR EDWIN, Baptist minister, Newcastle field, 1896-97 and 1903-05; b. Albert Co., N.B., 17 Nov 1864, s/o Joseph H. Steeves and Mary G. Bray; m. 1892, Novella Dykeman; d. Wakefield, Mass., 24 Aug 1941.

In 1890 Omar E. Steeves was supply-preaching at Underhill, where a new Baptist congregation had recently been organized, and he was said to have been the first minister to preach in the Underhill Baptist Church. Between 1893 and 1895 he was pastor of the Baptist churches of the Keswick field.

Steeves came to Newcastle in 1896 as minister of the town church, as well as of the churches at Whitneyville, Little Southwest, and Lower Derby. In 1897 he enrolled in a program of study at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., but he returned to Newcastle in 1903 and continued as pastor there and at Lower Derby until called to Hartland in 1905. He later served in Nova Scotia. His last church was at Rothesay, N.B., where he was living in retirement in 1938.

Steeves and his wife, Novella Dykeman, had a son and two daughters. It was at the Massachusetts home of one of their daughters that he died in 1941, at age seventy-six.