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    • Doctors (African American) describes a missing person or a searcher who is an African-American doctor. The first African-American doctor (informally trained) was an enslaved man named James Durham who purchased his freedom and practiced medicine in New Orleans. Dr. James McCune Smith became the first formally trained African-American doctor in the United States in 1837.

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Henry Marlow searching for the Rev. J. W. Green

The Weekly Star (Wilmington, NC)

June 9, 1899

Information Wanted.
Henry Marlow, colored, a subscriber
to the STAR at Excelsior, writes to
make inquiries about one Rev. J. W.
Green, colored, who claims to be a
preacher and doctor. He married in
the vicinity of Excelsior. Anyone
knowing anything of his where-
abouts [whereabouts] is asked to notify Henry Mar-
low [Marlow],…

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Dr. J. Mitchell Smith seeking father's brothers and sister

The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

January 30, 1915

WANTS TO FIND THEM.

My father Eli Smith, now dead was
born and reared in the State of Virginia.
He was sold as a slave to
the State of Louisiana. There were
three brothers and one sister, all
sold as slaves in Louisiana, Eli,
John, James and Emily Smith. I
am the only living son. Any information
concerning the whereabouts…

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