Pharmacist Frank Barbour Coffin owned and operated the first drug store in Little Rock, Arkansas which served the black community. Coffin was also a poet during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Coffin was born on January 12, 1870, in Holly Springs, Mississippi to Samuel and Josephine Barton Coffin. His mother died while he was still […]
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