Enos Samuel Forrester Minott

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This document, which you cannot read until it is enlarged, is

the birth certificate of Enos Samuel Minott, born on April 26,

1883, at 19, Stephen Street, Allman Town, Kingston,

Jamaica. He was the son of John Thomas Minott, carpenter,

and Leonora Minott, née Green.

This US Census record in 1900 records the Minott family

as having come to the USA in 1893. They were then living

at 123, 97th Street, and Enos was 17 years old and at school.

Enos Minott, listed as at school in 1900, then at college

in 1905, on New York Census records, had started on

his studies to become a medical doctor, but 'Hemorrhage

of the Lungs' caused his death, on September 2, 1905.

Like many young people a hundred years ago, his life

was prematurely ended by disease.

An article in The Colored American Magazine, in

October 1908, about Enos's older sister, Adena,

contained an inaccurate but interesting reference

to him.

Sadly, Enos had died before getting his medical degree,

and the archives of the Cornell Medical College cannot

confirm that he was the first Black student to attend,

as their records have no indication of student

race/ethnicity.

At a memorial service for his father and mother in Jamaica in 1925 the speaker referred to Enos:

"I have seen a picture of one of his sons, (since dead) a medical student, who was the only man of colour, apparently comfortable and happy in congenial surroundings, in a college, where all
his class mates were white men."