Dr. Thomas W. Burton was the first African American physician in Springfield, Ohio, the first to open a drugstore, and the first to operate a successful African American newspaper. Burton, the youngest of 15 children, was born a slave on May 4, 1860, in Madison County, Kentucky. When he was five, his father, Edward, died. […]
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