Jacob Anthony W Minott

Jacob A W Minott was born in Jamaica on June 6 1885, as recorded on a birth certificate for an unnamed boy at that date, and in an entry on a US census record in 1900.

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He had a close relationship with his sister Adena, and helped her with her enetertaining.

Following his sister Adena's advice, J Anthony Minott made a career for himself as a real estate broker, starting before 1910 and continuing into the early 1920s.

      New York Times, April 30, 1912

'Her brother, J. Anthony, was the first colored man to open a real estate business on the New York East Side, and is now a successful broker in the Harlem section, that city.'

New York Age, April 2, 1921

J Anthony Minott died in Manhattan on May 14, 1922, at the age of 37.