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Date Original
1943-1949
Description
Newspaper advertisement
Biographical/Historical Note
Frank Barbour Coffin was an African-American pharmacist, business owner, published poet, trustee for Wesley Chapel Methodist Church, and secretary for Philander Smith College. Frank was born to Samuel and Josephine Coffin in Holly Springs, Mississippi on January 12, 1870. He attended Rust College in Holly Springs, and Fisk University and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Coffin purchased George Jones Drug Store on 700 West 9th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 1, 1898, which Coffin operated until his death on March 4, 1951. Coffin's drug store became known as Children's Drug Store around 1928, because the neighborhood children enjoyed his soda fountain and candy. The motto of the store became, "Follow the Children to Children's Drug Store." Coffin published poetry throughout his life in many different newspapers and published two books; Coffin's Poems and AJAX Ordeals, in 1897 and Factum Factorum in 1947. Coffin is buried at Haven of Rest Cemetery in Little Rock and his gravestone reads, "Let me live somewhere on life's highway and be the children's friend."
Physical Description
Microfilm
Subjects
African American; Business enterprises; Business people; Drugstores
Geographical Area
Little Rock, Pulaski County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
MFILM News 000363
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Newspaper microfilm collection
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Frank Barbour Coffin Advertisement for Children's Drug Store, Newspaper microfilm collection, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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